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title: Bystanders can help stop bullying by not joining in, supporting the… — Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness · tree and pragmatics
description: Bystanders can help stop bullying by not joining in, supporting the victim and telling an adult. Who acts: Bystanders. 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 every clause
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# Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness, sentence 16

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Bystanders can help stop bullying by not joining in, supporting the victim and telling an adult.

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**Who acts:** Bystanders · **What happens:** help, stop, not join in, support, tell · **To what, where:** bullying, victim, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bystanders), 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:16
# text = Bystanders can help stop bullying by not joining in, supporting the victim and telling an adult.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Bystanders	bystander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	joining	join	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	supporting	support	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **help** | can | Bystanders |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | infinitive | Bystanders *not said here* | bullying |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bullying=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **join in** | gerund | Bystanders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **support** | gerund | Bystanders *not said here* | the victim |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer victim=Stimulus |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Bystanders *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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): R8-pos-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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