Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 22

Saying or writing that two people love each other, faking a love note, or passing on rumours about someone's private life can embarrass and hurt them, so it is not a harmless joke.

Who acts: two people, Saying, life · What happens: say, write, love, fake, pass on, embarrass · To what, where: each, love note, rumours, people, harmless joke · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm» 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 (two people, Saying, life), 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	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 embarrass	csubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 writing	cc
3	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Saying	conj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 love	mark
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 people	nummod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 love	nsubj
7	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Saying	ccomp
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	7 love	obj
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 faking	punct
11	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Saying	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 note	det
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 note	compound
14	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 faking	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 passing	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 passing	cc
17	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Saying	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 passing	compound:prt
19	rumours	rumour	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 passing	obj
20	about	about	ADP	_	24 life	case
21	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 life	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 someone	case
23	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 life	amod
24	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rumours	nmod
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 embarrass	aux
26	embarrass	embarrass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 joke	parataxis
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hurt	cc
28	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 embarrass	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hurt	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 joke	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	37 joke	advmod
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 joke	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 joke	cop
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 joke	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 joke	det
36	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 joke	amod
37	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Saying	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	write	gerund				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	love	present	two people	each		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
4	fake	gerund		a love note		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Patient
5	pass on	gerund		rumours	about someone's private life	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumour=Theme
6	embarrass	can	Saying			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
7	hurt	infinitive	Saying not said here	people		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient
8	not is a	present	life	a harmless joke		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:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.lesson:22.

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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