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title: Bullies rely on silence, so telling a trusted adult is the way to st… — Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying · tree and pragmatics
description: Bullies rely on silence, so telling a trusted adult is the way to stop it. Who acts: Bullies, telling. A sentence of the lesson «Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying, sentence 13

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Bullies rely on silence, so telling a trusted adult is the way to stop it.

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**Who acts:** Bullies, telling · **What happens:** rely, tell, trust, be, stop · **To what, where:** trusted adult, way, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying» 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, telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:098-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying.lesson:13
# text = Bullies rely on silence, so telling a trusted adult is the way to stop it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 098-friendship-being-left-out-and-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	Bullies	bully	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rely	rely	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
7	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **rely** | present | Bullies |  |  |  |  | on silence | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on silence=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 3 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | telling | the way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Bullies *not said here* | adult |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

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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:098-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying.lesson:13`.

**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/).

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