The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 11

Cruel names about someone's body are bullying called body shaming; the words can stick and feel true, but they say more about the bullies than about the person.

Who acts: Cruel names, words · What happens: bully, call, stick, feel, say · To what, where: body shaming, more · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape» 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 (Cruel names, words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 names	amod
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bullying	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 body	case
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 body	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 someone	case
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 names	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bullying	aux
8	bullying	bully	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bullying	acl
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shaming	compound
11	shaming	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 stick	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 words	det
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stick	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stick	aux
16	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bullying	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 feel	cc
18	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stick	conj
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feel	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 say	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bullying	conj
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 say	obj
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 bullies	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bullies	det
27	bullies	bully	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 more	obl
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 person	case
29	about	about	ADP	_	31 person	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 person	det
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bullies	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bullying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bully	present · progressive	Cruel names about someone's body			vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
2	call	participle		body shaming		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stick	can	the words			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	feel	infinitive	the words not said here		true property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	present	words = word	more		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic

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, 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:018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.lesson:11.

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 ×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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