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title: Being mugged means being robbed in the street; handing over things t… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Being mugged means being robbed in the street; handing over things to stay safe is smart, not weak, and it should be told to a parent and the police. Who acts: handing. A sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with
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# Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 12

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Being mugged means being robbed in the street; handing over things to stay safe is smart, not weak, and it should be told to a parent and the police.

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**Who acts:** handing · **What happens:** mug, mean, rob, hand over, stay, be · **To what, where:** street, things, bullying, parent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» 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 (handing), 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:12
# text = Being mugged means being robbed in the street; handing over things to stay safe is smart, not weak, and it should be told to a parent and the police.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	mugged	mug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	csubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	robbed	rob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	csubj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=29:cc
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mug** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **rob** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | the street |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **hand over** | gerund |  | things |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | handing |  |  |  |  | smart *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **be** |  | handing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should · passive |  | bullying | a parent and the police |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to parent=Recipient |

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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:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.lesson:12`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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