--- title: Some teasing is never fair: calling a crying friend a crybaby, a poo… — Friendly teasing — when it's fun and when it sti… · tree and pragmatics description: Some teasing is never fair: calling a crying friend a crybaby, a poor friend a meanie, or someone who reports real danger a tattletale. Who acts: teasing, poor friend. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teasing, poor friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chinese-street:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:3 # text = Some teasing is never fair: calling a crying friend a crybaby, a poor friend a meanie, or someone who reports real danger a tattletale. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chinese-street # lesson = 023-friendly-teasing.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 teasing teasing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 crying crying NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 crybaby crybaby NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 meanie meanie NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 appos _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 reports report VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 tattletale tattletale NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | some teasing | | | | | fair *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | gerund | some teasing *not said here* | | a crying friend | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | | 3 | **meanie** | | a poor friend | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **report** | present | | real danger | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:chinese-street:023-friendly-teasing.lesson:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/2/) - next →: [Friendly teasing — when it's fun and w…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/23-friendly-teasing/)