--- title: Racism is treating people badly because of their race or where their… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics description: Racism is treating people badly because of their race or where their family comes from; telling someone to "go back" where they supposedly came from is racist bullying and should always be reported. Who acts: Racism, family, someone, people. 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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 (Racism, family, someone, people), 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:9 # text = Racism is treating people badly because of their race or where their family comes from; telling someone to "go back" where they supposedly came from is racist bullying and should always be reported. # 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 1 Racism racism NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 treating treat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 6 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 9 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 6 fixed _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 14 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 csubj _ _ 18 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 22 back back ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 supposedly supposedly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 27 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:advmod 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 racist racist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 bullying bully NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 36 advmod _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 reported report VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **treat** | present · progressive | Racism | | people | | | because people's race; badly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | | 2 | **come** | present | people's family | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | someone | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **go back** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **come** | past | people | | | | | supposedly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | telling | racist bullying | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **report** | should · passive | telling *not said here* | | | | | always *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP» | | 8 | **race** | | people | | | | | | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:9`. **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. **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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander/8/) - next →: [Fights, racism and being a bystander, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander/)