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title: Bystanders help most by not cheering and by walking away too. — Walking away · tree and pragmatics
description: Bystanders help most by not cheering and by walking away too. Who acts: Bystanders. A sentence of the lesson «Walking away» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Walking away, sentence 31

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Bystanders help most by not cheering and by walking away too.

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**Who acts:** Bystanders · **What happens:** help, not cheer, walk away

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking away» 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 (Bystanders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:371-walking-away.lesson:31
# text = Bystanders help most by not cheering and by walking away too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 371-walking-away.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	Bystanders	bystander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	2	advmod	_	_
4	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	cheering	cheer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Bystanders |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **cheer** | gerund | Bystanders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **walk away** | gerund | Bystanders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:371-walking-away.lesson:31`.

**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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