--- title: Sometimes we decide someone hurt us on purpose when it was an accide… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes we decide someone hurt us on purpose when it was an accident; "jumping to conclusions" causes many fights, and checking first prevents them. Who acts: we, someone, purpose, checking. 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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 (we, someone, purpose, checking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:13 # text = Sometimes we decide someone hurt us on purpose when it was an accident; "jumping to conclusions" causes many fights, and checking first prevents them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 decide decide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advcl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 jumping jump VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 conclusions conclusion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 20 causes cause NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 checking check VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 csubj _ _ 26 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 25 advmod _ _ 27 prevents prevent VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **decide** | present | we | | | | | sometimes *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hurt** | past | someone | us | | purpose | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | past | purpose | a accident | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **jump** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | to conclusions *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Result | | 5 | **check** | gerund | | | | | | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **prevent** | present | checking | fights *= fight* | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=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:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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