Fights, racism and being a bystander, sentence 9

Racism is treating people badly because of their race or where their family comes from; telling someone to "go back" where they supposedly came from is racist bullying and should always be reported.

Who acts: Racism, family, someone, people, telling · What happens: treat, come, tell, go back, be, report · To what, where: people, someone, racist bullying · 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 (Racism, family, someone, people), 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	Racism	racism	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 treating	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 treating	aux
3	treating	treat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 treating	obj
5	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 treating	advmod
6	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	9 race	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 because	fixed
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 race	nmod:poss
9	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 treating	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 comes	cc
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 comes	advmod
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 family	nmod:poss
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comes	nsubj
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 race	acl:relcl
15	from	from	ADP	_	14 comes	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 telling	punct
17	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 bullying	csubj
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 telling	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 telling	xcomp
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 came	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
26	supposedly	supposedly	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 go	advcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	27 came	obl
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bullying	cop
30	racist	racist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bullying	amod
31	bullying	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 treating	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 reported	cc
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 reported	aux
34	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	36 reported	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 reported	aux:pass
36	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 bullying	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 treating	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	treat	present · progressive	Racism		people	because people's race; badly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
2	come	present	people's family				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund		someone			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go back not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	someone not said here				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
5	come	past	people			supposedly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	present	telling	racist bullying			tree rules
7	report	should · passive	telling not said here			always property	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»
8	race		people				nom race «event intransitive»: 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:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:9.

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 ×2. 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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