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title: Never joke about bombs, weapons or threats; it can cause alarm, sear… — Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny? · tree and pragmatics
description: Never joke about bombs, weapons or threats; it can cause alarm, searches and serious trouble. Who acts: you, friend. A sentence of the lesson «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 16

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Never joke about bombs, weapons or threats; it can cause alarm, searches and serious trouble.

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**Who acts:** you, friend · **What happens:** not joke, cause · **To what, where:** alarm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» of the everyday 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, friend), 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:16
# text = Never joke about bombs, weapons or threats; it can cause alarm, searches and serious trouble.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	joke	joke	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bombs	bomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	threats	threat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
13	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	searches	search	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **joke** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about bombs and weapons or threats | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bomb=Topic |
| 2 | **cause** | can | friend | alarm and searches and serious trouble |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition alarm=Patient |

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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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**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:16`.

**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, 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/).

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