--- title: If you are teased about your looks, say «Stop, I don't like that», w… — Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny? · tree and pragmatics description: If you are teased about your looks, say «Stop, I don't like that», walk away, and tell an adult if it continues. Who acts: you, I, adult. 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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 (you, I, adult), 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:19 # text = If you are teased about your looks, say «Stop, I don't like that», walk away, and tell an adult if it continues. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 teased tease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 17 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 obj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 21 away away ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 continues continue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: suggest - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | you | | | | about your looks | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **like** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | that | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | | 5 | **walk away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a adult | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **continue** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | adult | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:19`. **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. **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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/18/) - next →: [Jokes and teasing: when is it still fu…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/)