--- title: Bystanders, the people who see bullying happen, help the bully if th… — Bullying and how to stop it · tree and pragmatics description: Bystanders, the people who see bullying happen, help the bully if they join in or laugh. Who acts: people, Bystanders. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/17/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/) / 17 # Bullying and how to stop it, sentence 17 Bystanders, the people who see bullying happen, help the bully if they join in or laugh. **Who acts:** people, Bystanders · **What happens:** see, bully, happen, help, join in, laugh · **To what, where:** bully 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 (people, Bystanders), 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:17 # text = Bystanders, the people who see bullying happen, help the bully if they join in or laugh. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Bystanders bystander NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 bullying bully VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 obj _ _ 8 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bully bully NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 16 in in ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present | the people | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **bully** | gerund | | | | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **happen** | infinitive | the people *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **help** | present | Bystanders | the bully | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bully=Beneficiary | | 5 | **join in** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Bystanders *= bystander* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **laugh** | present | Bystanders *= bystander* *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:17`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Bullying and how to stop it, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/16/) - next →: [Bullying and how to stop it, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/)