Teasing and laughing at others, sentence 14
Laughing at how someone looks, speaks or moves can hurt them for a long time.
Who acts: someone, moves · What happens: laugh, look, speak, hurt · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (someone, moves), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 looks | mark |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 looks | advmod |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 looks | nsubj |
| 5 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Laughing | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 speaks | punct |
| 7 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looks | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 hurt | cc |
| 9 | moves | move | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hurt | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hurt | aux |
| 11 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 speaks | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hurt | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hurt | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | look | present | someone | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | someone not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hurt | can | moves | people | time | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
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:14.
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): R6-punct-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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