Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 25
A girl in Sydney laughed along when friends teased her accent, but at home she cried and asked her mum to move schools; her friends had no idea, because she had smiled.
Who acts: girl, friends · What happens: laugh, tease, cry, ask, move, have · To what, where: accent, home, mum, schools, idea
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 (girl, friends), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sydney | case |
| 4 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 laughed | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 teased | mark |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 teased | nsubj |
| 9 | teased | tease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 accent | nmod:poss |
| 11 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 teased | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 cried | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cried | nsubj |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughed | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cried | conj |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mum | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 move | mark |
| 23 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 asked | xcomp |
| 24 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 move | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 friends | nmod:poss |
| 27 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cried | parataxis |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 idea | det |
| 30 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 smiled | punct |
| 32 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 smiled | mark |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 smiled | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 smiled | aux |
| 35 | smiled | smile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 had | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | a girl in Sydney | along property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tease | past | friends | girl's accent | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | girl | home | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | girl not said here | girl's mum | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | move not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | schools | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent school=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | girl's friends | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 7 | smile | past · perfect | girl | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | accent | girl | nom accent «communication transitive»: 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:25.
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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