Fights, racism and being a bystander, sentence 8

Families often tease about funny moments; it usually means affection, but it can still sting, and laughing along over time turns it into a shared joke.

Who acts: Families, netball, laughing · What happens: tease, mean, sting, laugh, turn, share · To what, where: affection, netball, shared joke

This is a sentence of the lesson «Fights, racism and being a bystander» of the reflection 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 (Families, netball, laughing), 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	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tease	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 tease	advmod
3	tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 moments	case
5	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moments	amod
6	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tease	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 means	nsubj
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 means	advmod
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tease	parataxis
11	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sting	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 sting	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sting	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sting	aux
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 sting	advmod
17	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 means	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turns	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 turns	cc
20	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 turns	csubj
21	along	along	ADV	_	20 laughing	advmod
22	over	over	ADP	_	24 turns	case
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laughing	obl
24	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sting	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 turns	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 joke	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 joke	det
28	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 joke	amod
29	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turns	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tease	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	present	Families			moment	often property	vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present	netball	affection			usually property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Topic
3	sting	can	netball			still		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
4	laugh	gerund				time	along property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	turn	present	laughing	netball	a shared joke			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into joke=Trajectory
6	share	participle						tree rules

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:reflection:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:8.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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