Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 11
«Just joking» does not make a hurtful remark okay; you can say «That wasn't funny to me».
Who acts: joking, you, That · What happens: joke, not make, say, not be · To what, where: hurtful remark, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (joking, you, That), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 joking | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 joking | advmod |
| 3 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 make | csubj |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 joking | punct |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 remark | det |
| 9 | hurtful | hurtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remark | amod |
| 10 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 11 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 make | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | parataxis |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 funny | punct |
| 17 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 funny | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 funny | cop |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 funny | advmod |
| 20 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 say | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 funny | obl |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 funny | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other in a quote | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not make | present · do-support | joking | a hurtful remark | okay property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remark=Product | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | can | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | past | That | me | funny property | 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:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:11.
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 ×2, 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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