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title: If you see bullying, don't join in or laugh; stand with the child wh… — Bullying and how to stop it · tree and pragmatics
description: If you see bullying, don't join in or laugh; stand with the child who is hurt, invite them to be with you, and tell an adult; when one boy in a Seattle playground said «Leave him alone, come with us», the teasing stopped, because bullies want an audience. Who acts: you, adults, one boy, teasing. A s
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# Bullying and how to stop it, sentence 4

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If you see bullying, don't join in or laugh; stand with the child who is hurt, invite them to be with you, and tell an adult; when one boy in a Seattle playground said «Leave him alone, come with us», the teasing stopped, because bullies want an audience.

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**Who acts:** you, adults, one boy, teasing, bullies · **What happens:** see, not join in, laugh, stand, hurt, invite · **To what, where:** bullying, child, adults, adult, boy, audience · **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 (you, adults, one boy, teasing), 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:4
# text = If you see bullying, don't join in or laugh; stand with the child who is hurt, invite them to be with you, and tell an adult; when one boy in a Seattle playground said «Leave him alone, come with us», the teasing stopped, because bullies want an audience.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	bullying	bully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	join	join	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	invite	invite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Seattle	Seattle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	playground	playground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:conj
41	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
42	Leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	ccomp	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct
46	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	_
49	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	teasing	teasing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	bullies	bully	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
57	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	advcl	_	_
58	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | bullying |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bully=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **join in** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **laugh** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the child | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hurt** | present · passive |  | the child |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **invite** | infinitive |  | adults *= adult* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | adults *= adult* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you | tree rules |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one boy in a Seattle playground |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | boy |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 11 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 12 | **stop** | past | the teasing |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 13 | **want** | present | bullies | a audience |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot audience=Theme |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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