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title: The swap test: if a rule or judgement stops sounding fair when you s… — The brother who never does anything wrong: doubl… · tree and pragmatics
description: The swap test: if a rule or judgement stops sounding fair when you swap the names, it is a double standard. Who acts: rule, you. A sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home, sentence 12

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The swap test: if a rule or judgement stops sounding fair when you swap the names, it is a double standard.

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**Who acts:** rule, you · **What happens:** stop, sound, swap, be · **To what, where:** names, double standard

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards at home» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rule, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:12
# text = The swap test: if a rule or judgement stops sounding fair when you swap the names, it is a double standard.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	swap	swap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	dislocated	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:mark
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	judgement	judgement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
11	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	swap	swap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	standard	standard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a rule or judgement |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sound** | gerund | a rule or judgement *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **swap** | present | you | the names |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | rule | a double standard |  |  |  | the swap test *dislocated* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:165-the-brother-who-never-does-anything-wrong-double-standards.lesson:12`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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