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title: Laughing along when someone is bullied, out of fear, is common; maki… — The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret · tree and pragmatics
description: Laughing along when someone is bullied, out of fear, is common; making up for it and standing up next time is possible. Who acts: Laughing, making. A sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 17

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Laughing along when someone is bullied, out of fear, is common; making up for it and standing up next time is possible.

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**Who acts:** Laughing, making · **What happens:** laugh, bully, be, make up, stand up · **To what, where:** someone, fear

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» 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 (Laughing, making), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:17
# text = Laughing along when someone is bullied, out of fear, is common; making up for it and standing up next time is possible.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj
2	along	along	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	bullied	bully	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	csubj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
20	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
22	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bully** | present · passive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | present | Laughing |  |  | fear |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for fear | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stand up** | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | present | making |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | 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:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:17`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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