--- title: Bullies often say "Don't tell or it will be worse", because they rel… — Speaking up, saying no and growing up · tree and pragmatics description: Bullies often say "Don't tell or it will be worse", because they rely on silence; telling a trusted adult is the way bullying stops. Who acts: Bullies, it, trusted adult, telling. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bullies, it, trusted adult, telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:0 # text = Bullies often say "Don't tell or it will be worse", because they rely on silence; telling a trusted adult is the way bullying stops. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Bullies bully NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 rely rely VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 csubj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 28 bullying bully NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Bullies | | | | | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | future | it | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **rely** | present | Bullies *= bully* | | | | | on silence | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on silence=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a trusted adult | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | present | telling | the way | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **stop** | present | bullying | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality way=Eventuality | 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. **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:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Family changes and grief, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/214-family-changes-and-grief/21/) - next →: [Speaking up, saying no and growing up, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up/)