--- title: A bystander is someone who watches but does not help; fear freezes m… — Letting a friend down: broken promises and spill… · tree and pragmatics description: A bystander is someone who watches but does not help; fear freezes many people the first time, and even a small "that's not nice" or telling a teacher counts. Who acts: bystander, fear, teacher counts. 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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 (bystander, fear, teacher counts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:12 # text = A bystander is someone who watches but does not help; fear freezes many people the first time, and even a small "that's not nice" or telling a teacher counts. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bystander bystander NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 freezes freeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 18 amod _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 26 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 acl:relcl _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 counts count NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a bystander | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **watch** | present | | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **help** | present · do-support | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **freeze** | present | fear | many people | | | time | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient people=Result | | 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | nice *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a teacher counts | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:12`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. 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