--- title: Some jokes are never okay: about someone's race, religion or disabil… — Jokes and teasing: when is it still funny? · tree and pragmatics description: Some jokes are never okay: about someone's race, religion or disability, which spread prejudice, or about bombs and weapons, which staff at airports and schools must treat seriously. Who acts: jokes, race, staff, someone. 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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 (jokes, race, staff, 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:6 # text = Some jokes are never okay: about someone's race, religion or disability, which spread prejudice, or about bombs and weapons, which staff at airports and schools must treat seriously. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 religion religion NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 disability disability NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 spread spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 18 prejudice prejudice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 bombs bomb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 weapons weapon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:det|HaikuPos=DET:WDT:PronType=Int 27 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 airports airport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 treat treat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 34 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | some jokes | | | | | about someone's race and religion or disability; about bombs and weapons; okay *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **spread** | present | someone's race and religion or disability | prejudice | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prejudice=Theme | | 3 | **treat** | must | staff at airports and schools | bombs and weapons | | | | seriously *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | | 4 | **race** | | someone | | | | | | nom race «event intransitive»: 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:6`. **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, R6-punct-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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/5/) - next →: [Jokes and teasing: when is it still fu…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/)