Standing by a friend, sentence 29
Joining in alongside someone being laughed at can turn mocking into fun.
Who acts: Joining · What happens: join in, laugh, turn, mock · To what, where: fun
This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» 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 (Joining), 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 | Joining | join | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 turn | csubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 1 Joining | compound:prt |
| 3 | alongside | alongside | ADP | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Joining | obl |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 laughed | aux:pass |
| 6 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 someone | acl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 laughed | case |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 turn | aux |
| 9 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | mocking | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 turn | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 fun | case |
| 12 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turn | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join in | gerund | alongside someone | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund · passive | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | turn | can | Joining | fun | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into fun=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | mock | gerund | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:29.
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, 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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