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title: Is that just as bad?" Doing nothing while someone is hurt can feel l… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics
description: Is that just as bad?" Doing nothing while someone is hurt can feel like being part of it; next time, getting help is the right thing. Who acts: that, Doing, getting. A sentence of the lesson «Fights, racism and being a bystander» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Fights, racism and being a bystander, sentence 6

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Is that just as bad?" Doing nothing while someone is hurt can feel like being part of it; next time, getting help is the right thing.

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**Who acts:** that, Doing, getting · **What happens:** be, do, hurt, feel, get · **To what, where:** nothing, someone, part, help, right thing · **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 (that, Doing, getting), 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:6
# text = Is that just as bad?" Doing nothing while someone is hurt can feel like being part of it; next time, getting help is the right thing.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	"	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
8	Doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	cop	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obl
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	csubj	_	_
26	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hurt** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **feel** *in a quote* | can | Doing |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | gerund | Doing *not said here* | part and next time |  |  |  | of school | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** *in a quote* | gerund |  | help |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | getting | the right thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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