Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 12
Jokes that mock people's race, religion or disability cause real hurt and spread prejudice.
Who acts: Jokes, people · What happens: mock, cause, spread, race · To what, where: race, real hurt
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 (Jokes, 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 | Jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 mock | nsubj |
| 3 | mock | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Jokes | acl:relcl |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 race | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 people | case |
| 6 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mock | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 religion | punct |
| 8 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 race | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 disability | cc |
| 10 | disability | disability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 race | conj |
| 11 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hurt | amod |
| 13 | hurt | hurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cause | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prejudice | cc |
| 15 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cause | conj |
| 16 | prejudice | prejudice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hurt | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mock | present | Jokes | people's race and religion or disability | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cause | present | Jokes | real hurt and prejudice | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hurt=Patient | ||||
| 3 | spread | present | Jokes not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | 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:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:12.
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): R5-strong ×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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