Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 27

A smile or a laugh does not prove the other person thinks the joke is funny; many children laugh just to hide that they are hurt.

Who acts: smile, other person, joke, many children · What happens: not prove, think, be, laugh, hide, hurt · To what, where: smile · 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 (smile, other person, joke, many children), 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 smile	det
2	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prove	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 laugh	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 laugh	det
5	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smile	conj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 prove	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 prove	advmod
8	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 person	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 person	amod
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thinks	nsubj
12	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 prove	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 joke	det
14	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 funny	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 funny	cop
16	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thinks	ccomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 laugh	punct
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 children	amod
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 laugh	nsubj
20	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 prove	parataxis
21	just	just	ADV	_	23 hide	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 hide	mark
23	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 laugh	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 hurt	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hurt	nsubj:pass
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hurt	aux:pass
27	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 hide	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 prove	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not prove	present · do-support	a smile or a laugh			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	think speech: other	present	the other person			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	the joke		funny property	tree rules
4	laugh	present	many children			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hide	to-infinitive	many children not said here			tree rules
6	hurt	present · passive		smile		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:27.

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): 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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