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title: Teasing about someone's looks, skin colour, religion or family is no… — Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying · tree and pragmatics
description: Teasing about someone's looks, skin colour, religion or family is not allowed, and adults must stop it. Who acts: adults. 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 c
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# Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying, sentence 16

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Teasing about someone's looks, skin colour, religion or family is not allowed, and adults must stop it.

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**Who acts:** adults · **What happens:** tease, not allow, stop · **To what, where:** family

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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 (adults), 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:16
# text = Teasing about someone's looks, skin colour, religion or family is not allowed, and adults must 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about someone's looks and skin colour and religion or family | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **allow** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **stop** | must | adults | family |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector 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:16`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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