--- title: A boy in Ohio was bullied for months and told no one; he began to fa… — Friendship troubles, being left out and bullying · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio was bullied for months and told no one; he began to fake illness to stay home, until his teacher found out and the bullying was stopped. Who acts: boy, 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 (boy, teacher), 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:18 # text = A boy in Ohio was bullied for months and told no one; he began to fake illness to stay home, until his teacher found out and the bullying was stopped. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy 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 bullied bully VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 fake fake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 21 home home ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 until until SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bullying bullying NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bully** | past · passive | | a boy in Ohio | | | month | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | no one | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | | 3 | **begin** | past | boy | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **fake** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | illness | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Patient | | 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **find out** | past | boy's teacher | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **stop** | past · passive | | the bullying | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=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:098-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying.lesson:18`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Friendship troubles, being left out an…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/98-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying/17/) - next →: [Friendship troubles, being left out an…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/98-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/98-friendship-being-left-out-and-bullying/)