Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 16
Never joke about bombs, weapons or threats; it can cause alarm, searches and serious trouble.
Who acts: you, friend · What happens: not joke, cause · To what, where: alarm
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 (you, 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 joke | advmod |
| 2 | joke | joke | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 bombs | case |
| 4 | bombs | bomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 joke | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 weapons | punct |
| 6 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bombs | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 threats | cc |
| 8 | threats | threat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bombs | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 cause | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cause | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 cause | aux |
| 12 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 joke | parataxis |
| 13 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cause | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 searches | punct |
| 15 | searches | search | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 alarm | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 trouble | cc |
| 17 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trouble | amod |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 searches | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 joke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not joke speech: other | imperative | you not said here | about bombs and weapons or threats | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bomb=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cause | can | friend | alarm and searches and serious trouble | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition alarm=Patient |
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:16.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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