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title: What changed it: he told his teacher, the school treated it seriousl… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics
description: What changed it: he told his teacher, the school treated it seriously, the class did a project on where everyone's families come from, and his grandad's stories made him proud again; telling someone they don't belong because of their race or family is racist bullying, and it is never okay. Who acts:
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# Fights, racism and being a bystander, sentence 3

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What changed it: he told his teacher, the school treated it seriously, the class did a project on where everyone's families come from, and his grandad's stories made him proud again; telling someone they don't belong because of their race or family is racist bullying, and it is never okay.

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**Who acts:** Mo, school, class, families, stories, telling · **What happens:** change, tell, treat, do, come, make · **To what, where:** school, teacher, project, Mo, someone, racist bullying · **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 (Mo, school, class, families), 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:3
# text = What changed it: he told his teacher, the school treated it seriously, the class did a project on where everyone's families come from, and his grandad's stories made him proud again; telling someone they don't belong because of their race or family is racist bullying, and it is never okay.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	iobj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
23	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advcl
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	csubj	_	_
40	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	39	obj	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	ccomp	_	_
45	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	48	case	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	fixed	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
52	racist	racist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	_
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
57	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
58	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
59	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **change** | past |  | school |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Mo |  | Mo's teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |
| 3 | **treat** | past | the school | teacher |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | past | the class | a project |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Eventuality |
| 5 | **come** | present | everyone's families |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | past | Mo's grandad's stories | Mo |  |  |  | proud *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **not** **belong** | present · do-support | stories *= story* |  |  |  |  | because stories's race or family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **is a** | present | telling | racist bullying |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **not** **is** | present | school |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **race** |  | stories *= story* |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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): R3-conj-first ×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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