--- title: A smile or a laugh does not prove the other person thinks the joke i… — Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny? · tree and pragmatics description: A smile or a laugh does not prove the other person thinks the joke is funny; many children laugh just to hide that they are hurt. Who acts: smile, other person, joke, many children. 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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 (smile, other person, joke, many children), 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:27 # text = A smile or a laugh does not prove the other person thinks the joke is funny; many children laugh just to hide that they are hurt. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 laugh laugh NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 21 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 ccomp _ _ 28 . . 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 | **not** **prove** | present · do-support | a smile or a laugh | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | the other person | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the joke | | | | | funny *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **laugh** | present | many children | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hide** | to-infinitive | many children *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **hurt** | present · passive | | smile | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:27`. **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): R7-rel-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…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/26/) - next →: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/)