--- title: Telling an adult when someone hurts you is not "grassing"; a grass,… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics description: Telling an adult when someone hurts you is not "grassing"; a grass, in UK slang, tells on people to get them in trouble, but telling to stay safe is different. Who acts: someone, Telling, grass. 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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 (someone, Telling, grass), 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:17 # text = Telling an adult when someone hurts you is not "grassing"; a grass, in UK slang, tells on people to get them in trouble, but telling to stay safe is different. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 6 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 grassing grass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nmod 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:advcl 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:amod 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 2 | **hurt** | present | someone | you | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | | 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Telling | | | | | grass *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a grass in UK slang | | | | | on people | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a grass in UK slang *not said here* | people | | trouble | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Telling *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Telling *not said here* | | | | | safe *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is** | present | Telling *not said here* | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | 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:17`. **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, 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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