Teasing and laughing at others, sentence 0
Teasing often starts as showing off.
What happens: tease, start, show off
This is a sentence of the lesson «Teasing and laughing at others» 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: 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 | 3 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 starts | advmod |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 showing | mark |
| 5 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 starts | advcl |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 showing | compound:prt |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | 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 | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | start | present | often property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | show off | gerund | 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:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others.lesson:0.
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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