--- title: A girl in Ohio was teased every day for months and told no one; she… — Bullying and how to stop it · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Ohio was teased every day for months and told no one; she became so unhappy that she did not want to go to school at all, until a teacher noticed and stopped it. Who acts: girl, teacher. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, teacher), 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:5 # text = A girl in Ohio was teased every day for months and told no one; she became so unhappy that she did not want to go to school at all, until a teacher noticed and stopped it. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 teased tease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 obl _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 until until SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** | past · passive | | a girl in Ohio | | | day; month | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | no one | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | | 3 | **become** | past | girl | | | | | unhappy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | girl | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | | | all | | to school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **notice** | past | a teacher | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **stop** | past | a teacher *not said here* | teacher | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | 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:5`. **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): no change. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/4/) - next →: [Bullying and how to stop it, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/)