Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 17
Laugh at the idea, not the person: mocking a person makes them less likely to learn.
Who acts: you, mocking, idea · What happens: laugh, mock, make, learn · To what, where: idea, person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» of the world 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 (you, mocking, idea), 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 | Laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 idea | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 idea | det |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Laugh | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 person | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 person | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 idea | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 makes | punct |
| 10 | mocking | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 makes | csubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 person | det |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mocking | obj |
| 13 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Laugh | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 makes | obj |
| 15 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 likely | advmod |
| 16 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 makes | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 learn | mark |
| 18 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 likely | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | imperative | you not said here | the idea and the person | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | mock | gerund | a person | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | present | mocking | idea | likely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 4 | learn | to-infinitive | idea not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:17.
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): 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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