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title: Everyone can like what they like, and teasing about interests makes… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone can like what they like, and teasing about interests makes people hide what they enjoy. Who acts: Everyone, feelings, teasing, people. A sentence of the lesson «Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 15

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Everyone can like what they like, and teasing about interests makes people hide what they enjoy.

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**Who acts:** Everyone, feelings, teasing, people · **What happens:** like, tease, make, hide, enjoy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?» 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 (Everyone, feelings, teasing, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:204-pranks.lesson:15
# text = Everyone can like what they like, and teasing about interests makes people hide what they enjoy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 204-pranks.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | can | Everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 2 | **like** | present | feelings *= feeling* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **tease** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about interests | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present | teasing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hide** | present | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 6 | **enjoy** | present | feelings *= feeling* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:204-pranks.lesson:15`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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