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title: Bullies often do not see how much they hurt someone; seeing it clear… — The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape · tree and pragmatics
description: Bullies often do not see how much they hurt someone; seeing it clearly can change them, and making amends helps. Who acts: Bullies, seeing, making. 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 a
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# The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 16

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Bullies often do not see how much they hurt someone; seeing it clearly can change them, and making amends helps.

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**Who acts:** Bullies, seeing, making · **What happens:** not see, hurt, see, change, make, help · **To what, where:** someone, right, Bullies, amends · **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 (Bullies, seeing, making), 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:16
# text = Bullies often do not see how much they hurt someone; seeing it clearly can change them, and making amends helps.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bullies	bully	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	csubj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	csubj	_	_
21	amends	amends	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **see** | present · do-support | Bullies |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hurt** | past | Bullies *= bully* | someone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | gerund |  | right |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **change** | can | seeing | Bullies *= bully* |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | gerund |  | amends |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amends=Product |
| 6 | **help** | present | making |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:16`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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