--- title: Freezing someone out means ignoring them on purpose, as a group; it… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics description: Freezing someone out means ignoring them on purpose, as a group; it is a kind of bullying, and it is about the group's power, not something wrong with the person. Who acts: Freezing, bullying. 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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 (Freezing, bullying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.lesson:11 # text = Freezing someone out means ignoring them on purpose, as a group; it is a kind of bullying, and it is about the group's power, not something wrong with the person. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.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 ×2 1 Freezing freeze VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 5 ignoring ignore VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:ccomp 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 bullying bullying NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 28 conj _ _ 32 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **freeze out** | gerund | | someone | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient someone=Result | | 2 | **mean** | present | Freezing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **ignore** *not said to happen* | gerund | Freezing *not said here* | trainers *= trainer* | | purpose | | as a group | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | bullying | a kind and the group's power | | | | of bullying | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | bullying | | | | | about the group's power | 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:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.lesson:11`. **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 ×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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