Big feelings in big people, sentence 17
Laughing kindly with someone who tripped is fine; laughing at them makes their embarrassment worse.
Who acts: Laughing, people · What happens: laugh, trip, be, make, embarrass · To what, where: embarrassment
This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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 (Laughing, 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 | Laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 fine | csubj |
| 2 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 1 Laughing | advmod |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Laughing | obl |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 tripped | nsubj |
| 6 | tripped | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 someone | acl:relcl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fine | cop |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 laughing | punct |
| 10 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 makes | csubj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laughing | obl |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fine | parataxis |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 embarrassment | nmod:poss |
| 15 | embarrassment | embarrassment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 makes | obj |
| 16 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 makes | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | with someone; kindly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | trip | past | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | Laughing | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | at people | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make | present | laughing | people's embarrassment | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset embarrassment=Product | |||
| 6 | embarrass | people | nom embarrassment «feeling 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:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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