The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 12

Bullies often rely on their target staying silent; telling a trusted adult is the best way to stop it, and schools must keep pupils safe.

Who acts: Bullies, target, telling, schools · What happens: rely, stay, tell, trust, be, stop · To what, where: trusted adult, best way, adult, pupils · 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 (Bullies, target, telling, schools), 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	Bullies	bully	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rely	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 rely	advmod
3	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 target	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 target	nmod:poss
6	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rely	obl
7	staying	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 target	acl
8	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 staying	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
10	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 way	csubj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 adult	det
12	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 adult	amod
13	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 telling	obj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 way	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rely	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 stop	mark
19	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 way	acl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stop	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 keep	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 keep	cc
23	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 keep	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 keep	aux
25	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 way	conj
26	pupils	pupil	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 keep	obj
27	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 keep	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rely	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	rely	present	Bullies			on Bullies's target; often property	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on target=Theme
2	stay	gerund	Bullies's target not said here			silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund			a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	telling	the best way			tree rules
6	stop	to-infinitive	Bullies not said here	adult			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality
7	keep	must	schools	pupils		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=Theme
8	target		Bullies = bully				nom target «communication transitive»: 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, 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: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): 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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