--- title: Saying someone can't be or do something because of their skin colour… — Leaving someone out · tree and pragmatics description: Saying someone can't be or do something because of their skin colour is wrong and hurtful. Who acts: Saying. A sentence of the lesson «Leaving someone out» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/18/) [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/) / [Leaving someone out](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/) / 18 # Leaving someone out, sentence 18 Saying someone can't be or do something because of their skin colour is wrong and hurtful. **Who acts:** Saying · **What happens:** say, do, be · **To what, where:** someone, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Leaving someone out» 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 (Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:347-leaving-someone-out.lesson:18 # text = Saying someone can't be or do something because of their skin colour is wrong and hurtful. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 347-leaving-someone-out.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): R5-strong ×3 1 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:aux 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 8 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obj _ _ 9 because because ADP IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 9 fixed _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 hurtful hurtful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | infinitive | | something | | | | Money's skin colour *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | Saying | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | Saying *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:347-leaving-someone-out.lesson:18`. **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): R5-strong ×3. **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: [Leaving someone out, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/17/) - next →: [Leaving someone out, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/347-leaving-someone-out/)