--- title: Bullies often rely on their target staying silent; telling a trusted… — The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape · tree and pragmatics description: Bullies often rely on their target staying silent; telling a trusted adult is the best way to stop it, and schools must keep pupils safe. Who acts: Bullies, target, telling, schools. 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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 (Bullies, target, telling, schools), 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:12 # text = Bullies often rely on their target staying silent; telling a trusted adult is the best way to stop it, and schools must keep pupils safe. # 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 Bullies bully NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 rely rely VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 target target NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 staying stay VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 csubj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:iobj 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 26 pupils pupil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rely** | present | Bullies | | | | | on Bullies's target; often *property* | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on target=Theme | | 2 | **stay** | gerund | Bullies's target *not said here* | | | | | silent *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 4 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | telling | the best way | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stop** | to-infinitive | Bullies *not said here* | adult | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | | 7 | **keep** | must | schools | pupils | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=Theme | | 8 | **target** | | Bullies *= bully* | | | | | | nom target «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:reflection:018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.lesson:12`. **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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