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title: Do I not belong anywhere?" For weeks he stopped talking about his fa… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics
description: Do I not belong anywhere?" For weeks he stopped talking about his family's food and language at school, as if hiding them would make the words stop. Who acts: I, Mo, hiding, words. A sentence of the lesson «Fights, racism and being a bystander» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with 
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# Fights, racism and being a bystander, sentence 2

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Do I not belong anywhere?" For weeks he stopped talking about his family's food and language at school, as if hiding them would make the words stop.

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**Who acts:** I, Mo, hiding, words · **What happens:** not belong, stop, talk, hide, make · **To what, where:** school, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fights, racism and being a bystander» 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 (I, Mo, hiding, words), 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:2
# text = Do I not belong anywhere?" For weeks he stopped talking about his family's food and language at school, as if hiding them would make the words stop.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
5	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_
8	For	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	csubj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **not** **belong** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | past | Mo |  |  |  | week |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **talk** *in a quote* | gerund | Mo *not said here* |  |  | school |  | about Mo's family's food and language | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about food=Topic |
| 4 | **hide** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund |  | food |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | would | hiding |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | the words |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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