--- title: Standing up for someone is brave; it can make you a target, so telli… — The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape · tree and pragmatics description: Standing up for someone is brave; it can make you a target, so telling a grown-up and sticking together with friends is safest. Who acts: Standing, parent, telling. 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 --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 20 Standing up for someone is brave; it can make you a target, so telling a grown-up and sticking together with friends is safest. **Who acts:** Standing, parent, telling · **What happens:** stand up, be, make, tell, grow up, stick together · **To what, where:** target, you · **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 (Standing, parent, telling), 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:20 # text = Standing up for someone is brave; it can make you a target, so telling a grown-up and sticking together with friends is safest. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advcl 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obl _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 target target NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 16 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 csubj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det 18 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 obj _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=18:compound 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 sticking stick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 23 together together ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 safest safe ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 parataxis _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand up** | gerund | | | | | | for someone | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Standing | | | | | brave *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | can | parent | a target | you | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary target=Product | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **stick together** | gerund | | | | | | with friends; together *property* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with friend=Instrument | | 7 | **is** | present | telling | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | 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:20`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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