Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 8

Using who someone is, or who they might love, as an insult is bullying; nothing is wrong with the person it is aimed at.

Who acts: someone, things, Using, nothing, person · What happens: use, be, love, aim · To what, where: bullying, insult

This is a sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» 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 (someone, things, Using, nothing), 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	Using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 bullying	csubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Using	obj
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 who	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 who	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 love	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 love	cc
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 love	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 love	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 love	aux
10	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 someone	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bullying	punct
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 insult	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 insult	det
14	insult	insult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bullying	cop
16	bullying	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 wrong	punct
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 wrong	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 wrong	cop
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bullying	parataxis
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 person	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 person	det
23	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wrong	obl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 aimed	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 aimed	aux:pass
26	aimed	aim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 person	acl:relcl
27	at	at	ADP	_	26 aimed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 bullying	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	gerund			as a insult	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	someone	bullying		tree rules
3	love	might	things = thing			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus
4	is a	present	Using	bullying		tree rules
5	is	present	nothing		with the person; wrong property	tree rules
6	aim	present · passive	the person not said here	insult		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.lesson:8.

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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