Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 7

Teasing someone about their accent or the language they speak at home is unkind, and you can stand up for them or stay with them.

Who acts: brother, Teasing, you · What happens: tease, speak, be, stand up, stay, accent · To what, where: someone, language, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» 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 (brother, Teasing, you), 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	14 unkind	csubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 Teasing	obj
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 accent	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 accent	nmod:poss
5	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 someone	nmod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 language	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 language	det
8	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 someone	conj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 speak	nsubj
10	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 language	acl:relcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 speak	obl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 unkind	cop
14	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stand	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stand	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 stand	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stand	aux
19	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 unkind	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 stand	compound:prt
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stand	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 stay	cc
24	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stand	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stay	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 unkind	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tease	gerund		someone		about brother's accent	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient
2	speak speech: other	present	brother	the language not said here	home		tree rules
3	is	present	Teasing			unkind property	tree rules
4	stand up	can	you			for brother	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stay	infinitive	you not said here			with brother	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location
6	accent		brother				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:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:7.

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): R7-rel-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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