--- title: Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking accents is u… — Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny? · tree and pragmatics description: Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking accents is unkind. Who acts: Speaking, mocking. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Jokes and teasing: when is it still fu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/) / 20 # Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 20 Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking accents is unkind. **Who acts:** Speaking, mocking · **What happens:** speak, be, mock · **To what, where:** one language, skill, accents · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Speaking, mocking), 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:20 # text = Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking accents is unkind. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 3 than than ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 mocking mock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ _ 12 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | one language | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Speaking | a skill | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mock** | gerund | | accents | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | mocking | | | | | unkind *property* | 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:20`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/19/) - next →: [Jokes and teasing: when is it still fu…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/)