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title: Friendly teasing, like a nickname you both enjoy, can be a sign of c… — Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny? · tree and pragmatics
description: Friendly teasing, like a nickname you both enjoy, can be a sign of closeness. Who acts: you, Friendly teasing. 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 4

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Friendly teasing, like a nickname you both enjoy, can be a sign of closeness.

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**Who acts:** you, Friendly teasing · **What happens:** enjoy, be · **To what, where:** nickname, sign

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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: who acts (you, Friendly teasing), 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:4
# text = Friendly teasing, like a nickname you both enjoy, can be a sign of closeness.
# 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	Friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	teasing	teasing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nickname	nickname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	both	both	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	closeness	closeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | present | you | a nickname *not said here* |  |  |  | both *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nickname=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | can | Friendly teasing like a nickname | a sign |  |  |  | of closeness | tree rules |

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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:4`.

**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/).

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