Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 10

Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking someone's accent is unkind; stand up for them or stay with them.

Who acts: Speaking, someone · What happens: speak, be, mock, stand up, stay, accent · To what, where: one language, skill, accent · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Speaking, 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	Speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 unkind	csubj
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	4 one	advmod
3	than	than	ADP	_	2 more	fixed
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 language	nummod
5	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Speaking	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 skill	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 skill	det
8	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Speaking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mocking	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mocking	cc
11	mocking	mock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Speaking	conj
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 accent	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 someone	case
14	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mocking	obj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 unkind	cop
16	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stand	punct
18	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 unkind	xcomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 stand	compound:prt
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stand	obl
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 stay	cc
23	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stand	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stay	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 unkind	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund		one language		tree rules
2	is a	present		a skill		tree rules
3	mock	gerund		someone's accent		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme
4	is	present	Speaking		unkind property	tree rules
5	stand up	infinitive	Speaking not said here		for Adverts = advert	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stay	infinitive	Speaking not said here		with Adverts = advert	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location
7	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:10.

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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