--- title: Saying «just joking» after something mean does not make it okay; if… — Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny? · tree and pragmatics description: Saying «just joking» after something mean does not make it okay; if the target is hurt, it was not a joke to them. Who acts: Saying, target. 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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 (Saying, target), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:1 # text = Saying «just joking» after something mean does not make it okay; if the target is hurt, it was not a joke to them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 203-jokes-and-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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 joking joke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 ccomp _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 6 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 8 mean mean NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 9 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 parataxis _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 target target NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **joke** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | | something | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Saying | mean | | | after mean | okay *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **hurt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | the target | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **not** **is a** | past | target | a joke | them *= they* | | | | 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:everyday:203-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Jokes and teasing: when is it still fu…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/0/) - next →: [Jokes and teasing: when is it still fu…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/)