Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 11
Joking about what someone does is different from joking about their body or looks, which says nothing about their work and hurts people who look the same.
Who acts: someone, Joking, looks, people, hundreds · What happens: joke, do, be, say, hurt, look · To what, where: nothing, people, same · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics 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, Joking, looks, people), 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 | Joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 different | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 3 what | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 1 Joking | obl |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 does | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 different | cop |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 9 joking | mark |
| 9 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 different | advcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 body | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 joking | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 looks | cc |
| 14 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 body | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 says | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 says | nsubj |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 looks | acl:relcl |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 says | obj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 work | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 work | nmod:poss |
| 21 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nothing | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hurts | cc |
| 23 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 says | conj |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hurts | obj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 look | nsubj |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 people | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 same | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 look | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 different | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about what=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | someone | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Joking | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | joke speech: other | gerund | Joking not said here | about hundreds's body or looks | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about body=Topic | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | looks | nothing | about hundreds's work | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 6 | hurt | present | looks not said here | people | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient | ||||
| 7 | look | present | people | the same | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | work | hundreds = hundred | nom work «act intransitive»: 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:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:11.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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