--- title: A girl in Sydney laughed along when friends teased her accent, but a… — Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny? · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Sydney laughed along when friends teased her accent, but at home she cried and asked her mum to move schools; her friends had no idea, because she had smiled. Who acts: girl, friends. A sentence of the lesson «Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?» of the everyday course of Mova's pri --- [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/25/) [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/) / 25 # Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny?, sentence 25 A girl in Sydney laughed along when friends teased her accent, but at home she cried and asked her mum to move schools; her friends had no idea, because she had smiled. **Who acts:** girl, friends · **What happens:** laugh, tease, cry, ask, move, have · **To what, where:** accent, home, mum, schools, idea 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 (girl, friends), 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:25 # text = A girl in Sydney laughed along when friends teased her accent, but at home she cried and asked her mum to move schools; her friends had no idea, because she had smiled. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 along along ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 8 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 teased tease VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 24 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 smiled smile VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | a girl in Sydney | | | | | along *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tease** | past | friends | girl's accent | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Patient | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | girl | | | home | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | girl *not said here* | | girl's mum | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **move** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | schools | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent school=Theme | | 6 | **have** | past | girl's friends | no idea | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | | 7 | **smile** | past · perfect | girl | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **accent** | | girl | | | | | | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:25`. **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): no change. **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…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/23/) - next →: [Jokes and teasing: when is it still fu…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/)