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title: Calling someone names over and over, or getting others to join in, i… — Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels · tree and pragmatics
description: Calling someone names over and over, or getting others to join in, is a form of bullying. Who acts: others, Calling. A sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 20

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Calling someone names over and over, or getting others to join in, is a form of bullying.

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**Who acts:** others, Calling · **What happens:** call, get, join in, be · **To what, where:** someone names, others, form · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» 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 (others, Calling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:20
# text = Calling someone names over and over, or getting others to join in, is a form of bullying.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.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): no change
1	Calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	compound	_	_
3	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
10	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	_	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **call** | gerund |  | someone names |  |  |  | over *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 2 | **get** | gerund |  | others |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **join in** | to-infinitive | others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | present | Calling | a form |  |  |  | of bullying | tree rules |

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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:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:20`.

**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): no change. **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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