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title: Teasing about weight or bodies can hurt for years and can lead to ea… — Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny? · tree and pragmatics
description: Teasing about weight or bodies can hurt for years and can lead to eating problems. 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 22

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Teasing about weight or bodies can hurt for years and can lead to eating problems.

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**What happens:** tease, hurt, lead · **To what, where:** eating problems

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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: 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:22
# text = Teasing about weight or bodies can hurt for years and can lead to eating problems.
# 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
13	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
15	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about weight and bodies | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hurt** | can |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **lead** | can |  | eating problems |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |

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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:22`.

**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 ×4, 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/).

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