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title: Cruel names about someone's body are bullying called body shaming; t… — The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape · tree and pragmatics
description: Cruel names about someone's body are bullying called body shaming; the words can stick and feel true, but they say more about the bullies than about the person. Who acts: Cruel names, words. A sentence of the lesson «The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape» of the reflection course of Mova'
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# The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 11

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Cruel names about someone's body are bullying called body shaming; the words can stick and feel true, but they say more about the bullies than about the person.

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**Who acts:** Cruel names, words · **What happens:** bully, call, stick, feel, say · **To what, where:** body shaming, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape» 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 (Cruel names, words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.lesson:11
# text = Cruel names about someone's body are bullying called body shaming; the words can stick and feel true, but they say more about the bullies than about the person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.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
1	Cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	bullying	bully	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	shaming	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	obj	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bullies	bully	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bully** | present · progressive | Cruel names about someone's body |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | body shaming |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stick** | can | the words |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **feel** | infinitive | the words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | true *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | words *= word* | more |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic |

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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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**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. **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.

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