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title: Bullying on the bus is told to the driver, a teacher or a parent, be… — Crash forces, school buses and public buses · tree and pragmatics
description: Bullying on the bus is told to the driver, a teacher or a parent, because adults should stop it. Who acts: adults. A sentence of the lesson «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Crash forces, school buses and public buses, sentence 7

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Bullying on the bus is told to the driver, a teacher or a parent, because adults should stop it.

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**Who acts:** adults · **What happens:** tell, stop · **To what, where:** Bullying, driver · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» 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 (adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:269-school-buses-and-public-buses.lesson:7
# text = Bullying on the bus is told to the driver, a teacher or a parent, because adults should stop it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 269-school-buses-and-public-buses.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
1	Bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Bullying on the bus | the driver and a teacher or a parent |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to driver=Recipient |
| 2 | **stop** | should | adults | driver |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |

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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:269-school-buses-and-public-buses.lesson:7`.

**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. **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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