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title: Teasing that hurts and goes on, about looks, bodies, accents or what… — Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny? · tree and pragmatics
description: Teasing that hurts and goes on, about looks, bodies, accents or what someone likes, is bullying. Who acts: that, someone. 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 5

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Teasing that hurts and goes on, about looks, bodies, accents or what someone likes, is bullying.

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**Who acts:** that, someone · **What happens:** tease, hurt, go on, look, like, bully · **To what, where:** bodies

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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 (that, someone), 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:5
# text = Teasing that hurts and goes on, about looks, bodies, accents or what someone likes, is bullying.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:det
3	hurts	hurt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
9	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
16	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	nsubj	_	_
17	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	bullying	bully	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

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| # | 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 | **hurt** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go on** | present | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **like** | present | someone | bodies and accents |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 6 | **bully** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |

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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:5`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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