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title: Sometimes the bully is in the family, or even a grown-up. — Rival teams and the older bully · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes the bully is in the family, or even a grown-up. Who acts: bully. A sentence of the lesson «Rival teams and the older bully» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 16

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Sometimes the bully is in the family, or even a grown-up.

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**Who acts:** bully · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** family

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rival teams and the older bully» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:16
# text = Sometimes the bully is in the family, or even a grown-up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.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 ×1
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bully	bully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | present | the bully |  |  | the family or a grown and up |  | sometimes *property* | 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:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.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): R5-strong ×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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