--- title: A bystander watches harm happen without helping; doing nothing can f… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics description: A bystander watches harm happen without helping; doing nothing can feel like being part of it, and telling a teacher afterwards still helps. Who acts: bystander, harm, doing, telling. 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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 (bystander, harm, doing, telling), 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:16 # text = A bystander watches harm happen without helping; doing nothing can feel like being part of it, and telling a teacher afterwards still helps. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bystander bystander NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 6 without without SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 10 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 9 obj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 like like SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 14 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 cop _ _ 15 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 csubj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 24 still still ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | present | a bystander | harm | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Theme | | 2 | **happen** | infinitive | harm *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **help** | gerund | harm *not said here* | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** | gerund | | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 5 | **feel** | can | doing | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **is a** | gerund | doing *not said here* | part | | | | of bystander | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a teacher | | | afterwards *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 8 | **help** | present | telling | | | | still | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:16`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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