Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 10
A joke is only a joke if everyone, including the target, can laugh.
Who acts: joke, everyone · What happens: be, laugh · To what, where: joke
This is a sentence of the lesson «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» of the everyday 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 (joke, everyone), 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 joke | det |
| 2 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 joke | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 joke | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 joke | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 joke | det |
| 6 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 laugh | mark |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 laugh | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 everyone | punct |
| 10 | including | include | ADP | _ | 12 target | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 target | det |
| 12 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 everyone | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 everyone | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 laugh | aux |
| 15 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 joke | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a joke | a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh a condition, not said to happen | can | everyone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:10.
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. 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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