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title: Mocking someone's religion, skin, body, family or food is bullying,… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Mocking someone's religion, skin, body, family or food is bullying, and schools take it seriously. Who acts: Mocking, schools. A sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 24

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Mocking someone's religion, skin, body, family or food is bullying, and schools take it seriously.

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**Who acts:** Mocking, schools · **What happens:** mock, be, take · **To what, where:** religion, food

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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 (Mocking, schools), 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:24
# text = Mocking someone's religion, skin, body, family or food is bullying, and schools take it seriously.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	bullying	bully	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **mock** | gerund |  | someone's religion and skin and body and family or food |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent religion=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Mocking |  |  |  |  | bully *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | present | schools | food |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:24`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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