--- title: A bystander only watches; an upstander helps, even in small ways lik… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics description: A bystander only watches; an upstander helps, even in small ways like sitting with the person or telling a teacher together. Who acts: bystander, upstander, small ways. A sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/19-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up/15/) [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/) / [Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/19-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up/) / 15 # Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 15 A bystander only watches; an upstander helps, even in small ways like sitting with the person or telling a teacher together. **Who acts:** bystander, upstander, small ways · **What happens:** watch, help, sit, tell · **To what, where:** small ways, teacher · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (bystander, upstander, small ways), 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:15 # text = A bystander only watches; an upstander helps, even in small ways like sitting with the person or telling a teacher together. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bystander bystander NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 upstander upstander NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 even even ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 like like SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 together together ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | present | a bystander | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **help** | present | a upstander | | | small ways | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sit** | gerund | small ways *not said here* | | | | | with the person | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | small ways *not said here* | | a teacher | | | together *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | 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:15`. **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 ×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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