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title: Bullies pick on children who are alone more often, so staying near f… — Bullying and how to stop it · tree and pragmatics
description: Bullies pick on children who are alone more often, so staying near friends and adults helps. Who acts: Bullies, children, staying. A sentence of the lesson «Bullying and how to stop it» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bullying and how to stop it, sentence 12

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Bullies pick on children who are alone more often, so staying near friends and adults helps.

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**Who acts:** Bullies, children, staying · **What happens:** pick, be, stay, help

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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 (Bullies, children, staying), 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:12
# text = Bullies pick on children who are alone more often, so staying near friends and adults helps.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Bullies	bully	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pick	pick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	_	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
12	staying	stay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **pick** | present | Bullies |  |  |  |  | on children | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on child=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | children |  |  |  |  | alone, often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | near friends and adults | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near friend=Location |
| 4 | **help** | present | staying |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:12`.

**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 ×2. **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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