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title: If you are bullied, it is never your fault: say firmly «Stop, I don'… — Bullying and how to stop it · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Bullying, I, trusted adult, somebody. A sentence of the lesson «Bullying and how to stop it» of the ev
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# Bullying and how to stop it, sentence 2

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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.

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**Who acts:** Bullying, I, trusted adult, somebody · **What happens:** bully, not be, say, stop, not like, walk away · **To what, where:** you, fault, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bullying, I, trusted adult, somebody), 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:2
# text = 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.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	bullied	bully	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
13	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
28	near	near	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
41	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	xcomp	_	_
42	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	44	nsubj	_	_
44	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bully** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Bullying | your fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | firmly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | that |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 6 | **walk away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **stay** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | near friends and adults | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near friend=Location |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a trusted adult |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **keep** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 12 | **help** | present | somebody |  |  |  |  |  | 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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**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.

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