Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 25
Teasing someone about who they like (a «crush», a person you secretly fancy) can embarrass and hurt; if teasing goes on after you clearly ask them to stop, tell a teacher.
Who acts: animals, you, Teasing, teacher · What happens: tease, like, fancy, embarrass, hurt, go on · To what, where: someone, person, animals · 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 (animals, you, Teasing, teacher), 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 | Teasing | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 embarrass | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Teasing | obj |
| 3 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 6 like | mark |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 like | obj |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 like | nsubj |
| 6 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 someone | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 crush | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crush | det |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 crush | punct |
| 10 | crush | crush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 like | parataxis |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 crush | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Teasing | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crush | appos |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 fancy | nsubj |
| 16 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 17 fancy | advmod |
| 17 | fancy | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 person | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 fancy | punct |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 embarrass | aux |
| 20 | embarrass | embarrass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hurt | cc |
| 22 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 embarrass | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 tell | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 goes | mark |
| 25 | teasing | tease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 goes | nsubj |
| 26 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 tell | advcl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 goes | compound:prt |
| 28 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 31 ask | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 ask | nsubj |
| 30 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 31 ask | advmod |
| 31 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 goes | advcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 ask | iobj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 stop | mark |
| 34 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 ask | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 tell | punct |
| 36 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 embarrass | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 teacher | det |
| 38 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tell | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 embarrass | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tease | gerund | someone | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | |||||
| 2 | like | present | animals = animal | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fancy | present | you | a person not said here | secretly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | embarrass | can | Teasing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | hurt | infinitive | Teasing not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | tease | gerund | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | go on a condition, not said to happen | present | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | ask speech: ask | present | you | animals = animal | clearly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 9 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 10 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:25.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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