Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 4
Friendly teasing, like a nickname you both enjoy, can be a sign of closeness.
Who acts: you, Friendly teasing · What happens: enjoy, be · To what, where: nickname, sign
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, Friendly teasing), 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 | Friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 teasing | amod |
| 2 | teasing | teasing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sign | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nickname | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 nickname | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 nickname | det |
| 6 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teasing | nmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 enjoy | nsubj |
| 8 | both | both | ADV | _ | 9 enjoy | advmod |
| 9 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nickname | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 enjoy | punct |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sign | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sign | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sign | det |
| 14 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 closeness | case |
| 16 | closeness | closeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sign | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | present | you | a nickname not said here | both property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nickname=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a | can | Friendly teasing like a nickname | a sign | of closeness | 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:4.
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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