Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 23
Laughing at someone for a long time makes them scared to try; laugh briefly with them, then help.
Who acts: Laughing, seeds · What happens: laugh, make, try, help · To what, where: someone, seeds
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 (Laughing, seeds), 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 | VerbForm=Ger | 8 makes | csubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 someone | case |
| 3 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Laughing | obl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Laughing | obl |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 makes | obj |
| 10 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 try | mark |
| 12 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 scared | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 laugh | punct |
| 14 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 makes | conj |
| 15 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 14 laugh | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laugh | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 help | advmod |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 makes | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | someone | time | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Laughing | seeds = seed | scared property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | seeds = seed not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | laugh | infinitive | Laughing not said here | with seeds = seed; briefly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | help | infinitive | Laughing not said here | then | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:23.
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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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