Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 6

Some jokes are never okay: about someone's race, religion or disability, which spread prejudice, or about bombs and weapons, which staff at airports and schools must treat seriously.

Who acts: jokes, race, staff, someone · What happens: not be, spread, treat, race · To what, where: prejudice, bombs

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 (jokes, race, staff, someone), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 jokes	det
2	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 okay	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 okay	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 okay	advmod
5	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 treat	punct
7	about	about	ADP	_	10 race	case
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 race	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 someone	case
10	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 okay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 religion	punct
12	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 race	conj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 disability	cc
14	disability	disability	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 race	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 prejudice	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 spread	nsubj
17	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 race	acl:relcl
18	prejudice	prejudice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spread	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bombs	punct
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 staff	cc
21	about	about	ADP	_	22 bombs	case
22	bombs	bomb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 okay	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 weapons	cc
24	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bombs	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bombs	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 treat	obj
27	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 treat	nsubj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 airports	case
29	airports	airport	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 staff	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 schools	cc
31	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 airports	conj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 treat	aux
33	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bombs	acl:relcl
34	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	33 treat	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 okay	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	some jokes		about someone's race and religion or disability; about bombs and weapons; okay property	tree rules
2	spread	present	someone's race and religion or disability	prejudice		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prejudice=Theme
3	treat	must	staff at airports and schools	bombs and weapons	seriously property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient
4	race		someone			nom race «event intransitive»: 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:6.

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, R6-punct-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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