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title: Calling someone a nasty name for "stupid" is bullying; such words st… — Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the sp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Calling someone a nasty name for "stupid" is bullying; such words stick because they come at a weak moment, but they are not the truth. Who acts: Calling, such words, words. A sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection course of Mova's primary 
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# Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 9

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Calling someone a nasty name for "stupid" is bullying; such words stick because they come at a weak moment, but they are not the truth.

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**Who acts:** Calling, such words, words · **What happens:** call, be, stick, come, not be · **To what, where:** someone, bullying, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection 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 (Calling, such words, words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:9
# text = Calling someone a nasty name for "stupid" is bullying; such words stick because they come at a weak moment, but they are not the truth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme name=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Calling | bullying |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stick** | present | such words |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | present | words *= word* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | words *= word* | the truth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:9`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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

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