Fights, racism and being a bystander, sentence 16

A bystander watches harm happen without helping; doing nothing can feel like being part of it, and telling a teacher afterwards still helps.

Who acts: bystander, harm, doing, telling · What happens: watch, happen, help, do, feel, be · To what, where: harm, nothing, part, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fights, racism and being a bystander» 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 (bystander, harm, doing, telling), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bystander	det
2	bystander	bystander	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watches	nsubj
3	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watches	obj
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 harm	acl
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 helping	mark
7	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 happen	advcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 feel	punct
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 feel	csubj
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 doing	obj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 feel	aux
12	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 watches	parataxis
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	15 part	mark
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 part	cop
15	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feel	advcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 part	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 helps	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 helps	cc
20	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 helps	csubj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 teacher	det
22	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 telling	obj
23	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	20 telling	advmod
24	still	still	ADV	_	25 helps	advmod
25	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 watches	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 watches	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	watch	present	a bystander	harm				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Theme
2	happen	infinitive	harm not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help	gerund	harm not said here					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	do	gerund		nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
5	feel	can	doing					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	is a	gerund	doing not said here	part			of bystander	tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	gerund			a teacher		afterwards property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
8	help	present	telling			still		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:16.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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