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title: A boy in Arizona made fun of a classmate's hijab (a Muslim headscarf… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy in Arizona made fun of a classmate's hijab (a Muslim headscarf) every day; the girl became afraid to come to school, and the school treated it as bullying and the boy was suspended. Who acts: boy, girl, school. A sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday c
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# Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 22

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A boy in Arizona made fun of a classmate's hijab (a Muslim headscarf) every day; the girl became afraid to come to school, and the school treated it as bullying and the boy was suspended.

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**Who acts:** boy, girl, school · **What happens:** make, become, come, treat, suspend · **To what, where:** fun, school, boy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday 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 (boy, girl, school), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:22
# text = A boy in Arizona made fun of a classmate's hijab (a Muslim headscarf) every day; the girl became afraid to come to school, and the school treated it as bullying and the boy was suspended.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	classmate	classmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	hijab	hijab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	headscarf	headscarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
35	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=35:cc
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | a boy in Arizona | fun of a classmate's hijab |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product |
| 2 | **become** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* |  |  | school |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **treat** | past | the school | fun |  |  |  | as bullying | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as bullying=Attribute |
| 5 | **suspend** | past · passive |  | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:22`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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