--- title: What he came to understand: nothing is wrong with him; using who som… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics description: What he came to understand: nothing is wrong with him; using who someone might be as an insult is bullying; bullies pick anyone who looks like they won't fight back; and the fear of tomorrow is often worse than tomorrow itself. Who acts: fear, nothing, using, bullies. 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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 (fear, nothing, using, bullies), 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:4 # text = What he came to understand: nothing is wrong with him; using who someone might be as an insult is bullying; bullies pick anyone who looks like they won't fight back; and the fear of tomorrow is often worse than tomorrow itself. # 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): no change 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 csubj _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 dep _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 16 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux _ _ 18 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 insult insult NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 bullying bully VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 parataxis _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 bullies bully NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 obj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 like like SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 34 back back ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 often often ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 parataxis _ _ 44 than than ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 46 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 45 nmod:unmarked _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | fear | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **understand** | to-infinitive | fear *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | nothing | | | | | with fear; wrong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **use** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | infinitive | using | | | | | bully *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **pick** | present | bullies | anyone | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | | 7 | **look** | present | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **not** **fight back** | future | bullies *= bully* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** | present | the fear of tomorrow | | | | tomorrow | bad, often *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **fear** | | | tomorrow | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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:4`. **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): no change. **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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