--- title: Ignoring a bully sometimes works, but if it gets worse, tell someone… — Rival teams and the older bully · tree and pragmatics description: Ignoring a bully sometimes works, but if it gets worse, tell someone in charge. Who acts: Ignoring, 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/25/) [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/) / [Rival teams and the older bully](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/) / 25 # Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 25 Ignoring a bully sometimes works, but if it gets worse, tell someone in charge. **Who acts:** Ignoring, bully · **What happens:** ignore, work, get, tell · **To what, where:** bully, someone, charge · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Ignoring, 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:25 # text = Ignoring a bully sometimes works, but if it gets worse, tell someone in charge. # 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): no change 1 Ignoring ignore VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 bully bully NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 5 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 11 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 13 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ignore** | gerund | | a bully | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bully=Theme | | 2 | **work** | present | Ignoring | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | bully | | | | | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Ignoring *not said here* | | someone | charge | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | 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:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:25`. **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/). - ← previous: [Rival teams and the older bully, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/23/) - next →: [Rival teams and the older bully, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/)