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title: One quarrel between friends, or someone bumping you by accident, is… — Bullying and how to stop it · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: One quarrel, quarrel. A sentence of the lesson «Bullying and how to stop it» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Bullying and how to stop it, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** One quarrel, quarrel · **What happens:** bump, not be, need, sort out, repeat · **To what, where:** you, bullying

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bullying and how to stop it» 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 (One quarrel, quarrel), 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:1
# text = 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.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	conj	_	_
8	bumping	bump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	bullying	bully	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	sorting	sort	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
25	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bump** | gerund |  | you |  |  |  | by accident | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Instrument |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | One quarrel between friends |  |  |  |  | bully *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | can | quarrel |  |  |  | still |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **sort out** *not said to happen* | gerund | quarrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **repeat** | present · passive |  | bullying |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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:055-bullying.lesson:1`.

**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): R8-pos-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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