Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 18
If someone makes a racist or mean joke, do not laugh; say it is not okay or tell an adult.
Who acts: someone, you, joke · What happens: make, not laugh, say, not be, tell · To what, where: racist joke, adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» 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 (someone, you, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 makes | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 joke | det |
| 5 | racist | racist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 joke | amod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 joke | cc |
| 7 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 racist | conj |
| 8 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 laugh | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 laugh | advmod |
| 12 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 say | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 okay | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 okay | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 okay | advmod |
| 18 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 say | ccomp |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 tell | cc |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 okay | conj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 adult | det |
| 22 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make a condition, not said to happen | present | someone | a racist joke | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Product | ||||
| 2 | not laugh | infinitive · do-support | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | joke | okay property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | joke not said here | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
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:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:18.
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 ×2. 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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