--- title: If a bully says it will be worse if you tell, tell a trusted adult a… — Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a… · tree and pragmatics description: If a bully says it will be worse if you tell, tell a trusted adult anyway, because bullies rely on silence. Who acts: bully, body, you, bullies. A sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Interrupting, boasting, your own story…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/) / 16 # Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity, sentence 16 If a bully says it will be worse if you tell, tell a trusted adult anyway, because bullies rely on silence. **Who acts:** bully, body, you, bullies · **What happens:** say, be, tell, trust, rely · **To what, where:** trusted adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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 (bully, body, you, bullies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:16 # text = If a bully says it will be worse if you tell, tell a trusted adult anyway, because bullies rely on silence. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.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 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bully bully NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 8 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 ccomp _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ _ 16 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 bullies bully NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 rely rely VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a bully | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | future | body | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a trusted adult | | | anyway *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 5 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **rely** | present | bullies | | | | | on silence | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on silence=Theme | 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:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:16`. **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. 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