--- title: Then there is Max, who just stood there while his friends bullied a… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics description: Then there is Max, who just stood there while his friends bullied a younger kid: "I didn't do anything. Who acts: Max, friends, Mo. 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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 (Max, friends, Mo), 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:4 # text = Then there is Max, who just stood there while his friends bullied a younger kid: "I didn't do anything. # 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): no change 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Max Max PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 bullied bully VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 23 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | Max | | | there | then | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past | Max | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bully** | past | Mo's friends | | a younger kid | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Beneficiary | | 4 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Mo | anything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | 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:4`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Fights, racism and being a bystander, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander/3/) - next →: [Fights, racism and being a bystander, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander/)