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title: Bullying is hurting someone again and again who finds it hard to def… — Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness · tree and pragmatics
description: Bullying is hurting someone again and again who finds it hard to defend themselves; it is always wrong. Who acts: Bullying, it. A sentence of the lesson «Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness, sentence 15

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Bullying is hurting someone again and again who finds it hard to defend themselves; it is always wrong.

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**Who acts:** Bullying, it · **What happens:** hurt, find, defend, be · **To what, where:** someone, Bullying, others

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness» of the religion ethics 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 (Bullying, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:15
# text = Bullying is hurting someone again and again who finds it hard to defend themselves; it is always wrong.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	csubj	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	defend	defend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:expl
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19: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 | **hurt** | present · progressive | Bullying | someone |  |  | again |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | present |  | Bullying |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **defend** | to-infinitive | Bullying *not said here* | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | always, wrong *property* | 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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**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:religion-ethics:034-honesty-fairness-and-kindness.lesson:15`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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

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