--- title: Bullies rely on silence, and the mean words often stick and start to… — The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape · tree and pragmatics description: Bullies rely on silence, and the mean words often stick and start to feel true; they are not true, and telling a trusted adult is the strongest move, not snitching. Who acts: Bullies, mean words, words, telling. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bullies, mean words, words, 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:6 # text = Bullies rely on silence, and the mean words often stick and start to feel true; they are not true, and telling a trusted adult is the strongest move, not snitching. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Bullies bully NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rely rely VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 stick stick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 24 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 csubj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 snitching snitch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rely** | present | Bullies | | | | | on silence | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on silence=Theme | | 2 | **stick** | present | the mean words | | | | | often *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **start** | present | the mean words *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **feel** | to-infinitive | the mean words *not said here* | | | | | true *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | words *= word* | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 7 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | present | telling | the strongest move | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **not** **snitch** *speech: other* | gerund | telling *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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 ×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. 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