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title: Laughing kindly with someone who tripped is fine; laughing at them m… — Big feelings in big people · tree and pragmatics
description: Laughing kindly with someone who tripped is fine; laughing at them makes their embarrassment worse. Who acts: Laughing, people. A sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Big feelings in big people, sentence 17

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Laughing kindly with someone who tripped is fine; laughing at them makes their embarrassment worse.

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**Who acts:** Laughing, people · **What happens:** laugh, trip, be, make, embarrass · **To what, where:** embarrassment

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big feelings in big people» of the adult life 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, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson:17
# text = Laughing kindly with someone who tripped is fine; laughing at them makes their embarrassment worse.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 036-big-feelings-in-big-people.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tripped	trip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with someone; kindly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trip** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Laughing |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at people | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | present | laughing | people's embarrassment |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset embarrassment=Product |
| 6 | **embarrass** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom embarrassment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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