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title: Hitting back, even when someone else started it, makes you part of t… — The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape · tree and pragmatics
description: Hitting back, even when someone else started it, makes you part of the trouble; "two wrongs don't make a right". Who acts: someone, Hitting, two wrongs. 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 t
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# The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 15

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Hitting back, even when someone else started it, makes you part of the trouble; "two wrongs don't make a right".

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**Who acts:** someone, Hitting, two wrongs · **What happens:** hit back, start, make, not make · **To what, where:** Cyberbullying, you, right · **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 (someone, Hitting, two wrongs), 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:15
# text = Hitting back, even when someone else started it, makes you part of the trouble; "two wrongs don't make a right".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	Hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
7	else	else	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	wrongs	wrong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | past | someone | Cyberbullying |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** | present | Hitting | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | present · do-support | two wrongs | a right |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset right=Product |

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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:018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.lesson:15`.

**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): R6-punct-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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