Teasing and laughing at others, sentence 12

Laughing at a fall, a stammer, glasses, someone's food or a wrong answer makes people stop trying, stop bringing their lunch, stop putting their hand up.

What happens: laugh, make, stop, try, bring, put up · To what, where: fall, people, lunch, hand

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	Laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 makes	advcl
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 fall	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fall	det
4	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Laughing	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stammer	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stammer	det
7	stammer	stammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 glasses	punct
9	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stammer	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 food	punct
11	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 food	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 someone	case
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stammer	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 answer	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 food	conj
18	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stop	obj
20	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 makes	xcomp
21	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 stop	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stop	punct
23	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 makes	conj
24	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 stop	xcomp
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 lunch	nmod:poss
26	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bringing	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stop	punct
28	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 makes	conj
29	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 stop	xcomp
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hand	nmod:poss
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 putting	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	29 putting	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 makes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	laugh	gerund		a fall and a stammer and glasses and someone's food or a wrong answer	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present			tree rules
3	stop	infinitive	people		tree rules
4	try	gerund			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	stop	infinitive			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	bring	gerund	people's lunch		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme
7	stop	infinitive			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
8	put up	gerund	people's hand		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal

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:12.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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