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title: Some people who bullied others were having a hard time themselves; t… — Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did · tree and pragmatics
description: Some people who bullied others were having a hard time themselves; that explains it but doesn't make it OK. Who acts: people, that. A sentence of the lesson «Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did, sentence 33

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Some people who bullied others were having a hard time themselves; that explains it but doesn't make it OK.

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**Who acts:** people, that · **What happens:** bully, have, explain, not make · **To what, where:** others, people, sorry

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Enemies who became friends, and ones who never did» 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 (people, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.lesson:33
# text = Some people who bullied others were having a hard time themselves; that explains it but doesn't make it OK.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bullied	bully	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
14	explains	explain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	OK	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **bully** | past | some people | others |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **have** | past · progressive | some people | people |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 3 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | that | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | that *not said here* | sorry |  |  |  | ok *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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:484-enemies-who-became-friends-and-ones-who-never-did.lesson:33`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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