Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 1

Playing along with a little brother's silly knock-knock joke is kind; mocking someone's accent or home language is not.

Who acts: Playing, little brother, someone · What happens: play along, be, mock, not be, joke, accent · To what, where: accent

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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 (Playing, little brother, 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	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 kind	csubj
2	along	along	ADV	_	1 Playing	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	12 joke	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joke	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 brother	case
8	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 joke	amod
9	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knock	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 knock	punct
11	knock	knock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joke	compound
12	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Playing	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 kind	cop
14	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 kind	punct
16	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 kind	advcl
17	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 accent	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 someone	case
19	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mocking	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 language	cc
21	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 language	compound
22	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 accent	conj
23	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 kind	conj
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 is	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 kind	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play along	gerund			with a little brother's silly knock joke; along property	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with joke=Theme
2	is	present	Playing		kind property	tree rules
3	mock	gerund	Playing not said here	someone's accent or home language		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme
4	not be	present	Playing not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	joke		a little brother			nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
6	accent		someone			nom accent «communication transitive»: 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:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:1.

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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