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title: But teasing that hurts every day can turn into bullying, even from a… — Big brothers · tree and pragmatics
description: But teasing that hurts every day can turn into bullying, even from a brother. A sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Big brothers, sentence 7

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But teasing that hurts every day can turn into bullying, even from a brother.

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**What happens:** tease, hurt, turn · **To what, where:** bullying

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big brothers» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:501-big-brothers.lesson:7
# text = But teasing that hurts every day can turn into bullying, even from a brother.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 501-big-brothers.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	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bullying	bully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **tease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurt** | present |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **turn** | can |  |  |  |  |  | into bullying *result*; from a brother | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Patient into bully=Result from brother=Initial\_State |

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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:501-big-brothers.lesson:7`.

**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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