--- title: Teasing that goes on and on can hurt a child as much as hitting, and… — Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny? · tree and pragmatics description: Teasing that goes on and on can hurt a child as much as hitting, and can lead to sadness that lasts for years. Who acts: sadness. 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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 (sadness), 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:26 # text = Teasing that goes on and on can hurt a child as much as hitting, and can lead to sadness that lasts for years. # 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 ×2 1 Teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 on on ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 on on ADV RB _ 4 conj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 as as ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:amod 13 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 hitting hit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 lead lead VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** | gerund | | | | | | | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** | present | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hurt** | can | | a child | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Patient | | 4 | **hit** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lead** | can | | | | | | to sadness | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to sadness=Patient | | 6 | **last** | present | sadness | | | | year | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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:26`. **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 ×2. **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…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/25/) - next →: [Jokes and teasing: when is it still fu…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/)