--- title: Bullying and how to stop it — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Bullying and how to stop it», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Bullying is when someone hurts another person on purpose, again and again, and the person being hurt finds it hard to make it stop; it can be --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/) [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/) / Bullying and how to stop it # Bullying and how to stop it Lesson 55 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 22 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/55-bullying/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/0/) — Bullying is when someone hurts another person on purpose, again and again, and the person being hurt finds it hard to make it stop; it can be hitting or pushing, name-calling, leaving someone out on purpose, spreading rumours, or mean messages online. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/1/) — One quarrel between friends, or someone bumping you by accident, is not bullying, though it can still need sorting out; bullying is repeated and on purpose. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/2/) — If you are bullied, it is never your fault: say firmly «Stop, I don't like that», walk away, stay near friends and adults, and tell a trusted adult, and keep telling until somebody helps. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/3/) — Telling is not tattling: tattling is trying to get someone into trouble, while telling is trying to get someone out of trouble or keep them safe. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/4/) — If you see bullying, don't join in or laugh; stand with the child who is hurt, invite them to be with you, and tell an adult; when one boy in a Seattle playground said «Leave him alone, come with us», the teasing stopped, because bullies want an audience. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/5/) — A girl in Ohio was teased every day for months and told no one; she became so unhappy that she did not want to go to school at all, until a teacher noticed and stopped it. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/6/) — A boy in Sydney watched others push a smaller boy into lockers and did nothing; when he told a teacher at last, he learnt that it had been going on for weeks. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/8/) — Bullying can be physical, with words, by leaving someone out, or online. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/9/) — A single argument between friends is not the same as bullying. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/11/) — Bullied children often feel scared or ashamed to tell, even though it is not their fault. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/12/) — Bullies pick on children who are alone more often, so staying near friends and adults helps. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/13/) — Telling a trusted adult about bullying is the right thing to do. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/14/) — Telling keeps someone safe, while tattling only tries to get someone into trouble. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/15/) — If the first adult does not help, you tell another adult. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/16/) — Hitting back can get you hurt and can make the bullying worse. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/17/) — Bystanders, the people who see bullying happen, help the bully if they join in or laugh. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/18/) — Boys and girls can be friends, and teasing someone for who they play with is unkind. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/19/) — Standing with the hurt child and getting an adult can help stop bullying. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/20/) — Schools have rules against bullying, and teachers must act when they know about it. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/21/) — Spreading rumours and sending mean messages online are forms of bullying. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/22/) — Bullying can make children anxious, sad and afraid to go to school for a long time. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/23/) — Bullying usually goes on until someone tells an adult who can stop it. - ← previous: [Solving disagreements calmly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/) - next →: [Trusted adults and asking for help](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/56-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)