Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 21
A «joke» that makes someone worried or late is not fun for them.
Who acts: joke · What happens: make, not be · To what, where: someone
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), 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 | 3 joke | det |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 joke | punct |
| 3 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fun | nsubj |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 joke | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 makes | nsubj |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 joke | acl:relcl |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 makes | obj |
| 8 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 late | cc |
| 10 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 worried | conj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fun | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fun | advmod |
| 13 | fun | fun | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fun | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fun | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | a joke | someone | worried property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset someone=Product | |||
| 2 | not is | present | a joke | for accents = accent; fun 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:21.
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): no change. 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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