---
title: Bullying can happen at home too, from brothers, sisters or their fri… — The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape · tree and pragmatics
description: Bullying can happen at home too, from brothers, sisters or their friends; it is not "just teasing" if it scares you, and a parent needs to know. Who acts: Bullying, parent. 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 w
---

<!-- md -->
[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/19/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 19

# The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 19

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bullying can happen at home too, from brothers, sisters or their friends; it is not "just teasing" if it scares you, and a parent needs to know.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Bullying, parent · **What happens:** happen, not be, scare, need, know · **To what, where:** home, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Bullying, parent), 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:19
# text = Bullying can happen at home too, from brothers, sisters or their friends; it is not "just teasing" if it scares you, and a parent needs to know.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:outer	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	scares	scare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | can | Bullying |  |  | home |  | from brothers and sisters or sisters's friends | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Bullying |  |  |  |  | tease *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **scare** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Bullying | you |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 4 | **need** | present | a parent |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a parent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:19`.

**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 ×2, 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.

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

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The fight I lost and the bullying I ca…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/18-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape/18/)
- next →: [The fight I lost and the bullying I ca…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/18-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape/20/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/18-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape/)

