Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 9
Playing along with a younger child's jokes builds friendship and helps them learn language.
Who acts: Playing, Adverts, younger child · What happens: play, build, help, learn, joke · To what, where: friendship, Adverts, language
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, Adverts, younger child), 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 | 9 builds | csubj |
| 2 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 jokes | case |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 jokes | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 5 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 child | amod |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jokes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 child | case |
| 8 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Playing | obl |
| 9 | builds | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 builds | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 helps | cc |
| 12 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 builds | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 helps | obj |
| 14 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 helps | xcomp |
| 15 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 learn | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 builds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | along a younger child's jokes | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | build | present | Playing | friendship | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=Product | ||||
| 3 | help | present | Playing not said here | Adverts = advert | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | learn | infinitive | Adverts = advert not said here | language | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic | ||||
| 5 | joke | a younger child | nom joke «communication intransitive»: 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:9.
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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