--- title: Using who someone is, or who they might love, as an insult is bullyi… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics description: Using who someone is, or who they might love, as an insult is bullying; nothing is wrong with the person it is aimed at. Who acts: someone, things, Using, nothing. A sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 8 Using who someone is, or who they might love, as an insult is bullying; nothing is wrong with the person it is aimed at. **Who acts:** someone, things, Using, nothing, person · **What happens:** use, be, love, aim · **To what, where:** bullying, insult 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 (someone, things, Using, nothing), 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:8 # text = Using who someone is, or who they might love, as an insult is bullying; nothing is wrong with the person it is aimed at. # 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 Using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 csubj _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 1 obj _ _ 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 2 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 obj _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl:relcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 insult insult NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 bullying bully NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 aimed aim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 26 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | gerund | | | | | | as a insult | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | someone | bullying | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **love** | might | things *= thing* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | present | Using | bullying | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | nothing | | | | | with the person; wrong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **aim** | present · passive | the person *not said here* | insult | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:8`. **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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