--- title: Bullying is when someone hurts another person on purpose, again and… — Bullying and how to stop it · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Bullying, person. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bullying, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:055-bullying.lesson:0 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 055-bullying.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bullying bullying NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 again again ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 again again ADV RB _ 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 20 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj 22 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux _ _ 31 hitting hit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 pushing push VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 conj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 calling calling NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 conj _ _ 40 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 39 obj _ _ 41 out out ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 spreading spread VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 conj _ _ 46 rumours rumour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 or or CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 conj _ _ 51 online online ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Bullying | | | purpose | again | hurt *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hurt** | gerund · passive | | the person *not said here* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 3 | **find** | present | the person | Bullying | | | | hard *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Bullying *not said here* | Bullying | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stop** | infinitive | Bullying *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **hit** | can · progressive | person | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **push** | gerund | person *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **leave** | gerund | person *not said here* | someone | | purpose | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent someone=Theme on purpose=Location | | 9 | **spread** | gerund | person *not said here* | rumours or mean messages | | | | online *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rumour=Theme | 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:055-bullying.lesson:0`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Solving disagreements calmly, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/19/) - next →: [Bullying and how to stop it, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/)