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title: Standing up does not have to mean fighting: sitting with the friend,… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Standing up does not have to mean fighting: sitting with the friend, going to a teacher together, or reporting it is what an upstander does. Who acts: Standing. A sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 7

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Standing up does not have to mean fighting: sitting with the friend, going to a teacher together, or reporting it is what an upstander does.

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**Who acts:** Standing · **What happens:** stand up, not have, mean, fight, sit, go · **To what, where:** teacher

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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 (Standing), 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:7
# text = Standing up does not have to mean fighting: sitting with the friend, going to a teacher together, or reporting it is what an upstander does.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	obj	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	reporting	report	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	ccomp	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	upstander	upstander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obj
28	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | Standing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | to-infinitive | Standing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the friend | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to a teacher; together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to teacher=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **report** | present · do-support |  | teacher |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 8 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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