--- title: Telling a grown-up about bullying is not snitching or grassing; it i… — The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape · tree and pragmatics description: Telling a grown-up about bullying is not snitching or grassing; it is keeping someone safe. Who acts: Telling, grown. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/18-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [The fight I lost and the bullying I ca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/18-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape/) / 13 # The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 13 Telling a grown-up about bullying is not snitching or grassing; it is keeping someone safe. **Who acts:** Telling, grown · **What happens:** tell, not be, grass, keep · **To what, where:** grown, snitching, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Telling, grown), 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:13 # text = Telling a grown-up about bullying is not snitching or grassing; it is keeping someone 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 3 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 bullying bullying NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 snitching snitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 grassing grass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 keeping keep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 17 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obj _ _ 18 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:amod 19 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | grown | | | | about bullying | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient about bullying=Topic | | 2 | **not** **be** *speech: other* | present | Telling | snitching | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grass** | gerund | Telling *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | present · progressive | grown *= grown-up* | someone | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | 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:13`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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