Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings, sentence 3
Some teasing is never fair: calling a crying friend a crybaby, a poor friend a meanie, or someone who reports real danger a tattletale.
Who acts: teasing, poor friend · What happens: not be, call, meanie, report · To what, where: crying friend, real danger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it stings» of the chinese street 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 (teasing, poor friend), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 teasing | det |
| 2 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fair | cop |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 fair | advmod |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 calling | punct |
| 7 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 fair | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 9 | crying | crying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 friend | compound |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calling | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crybaby | det |
| 12 | crybaby | crybaby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 calling | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 friend | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 friend | det |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 friend | amod |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meanie | nsubj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 meanie | det |
| 18 | meanie | meanie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fair | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 someone | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 someone | cc |
| 21 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 meanie | appos |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 reports | nsubj |
| 23 | reports | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 someone | acl:relcl |
| 24 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 danger | amod |
| 25 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reports | obj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 tattletale | det |
| 27 | tattletale | tattletale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reports | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | some teasing | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | gerund | some teasing not said here | a crying friend | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | meanie | a poor friend | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | report | present | real danger | tree rules |
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:chinese-street:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:3.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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