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title: Being laughed at by many people online can be very humiliating, so d… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics
description: Being laughed at by many people online can be very humiliating, so do not film pranks without agreement. Who acts: many 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 every clause.
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# Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 22

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Being laughed at by many people online can be very humiliating, so do not film pranks without agreement.

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**Who acts:** many people · **What happens:** laugh, be, not film · **To what, where:** pranks

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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 (many 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:22
# text = Being laughed at by many people online can be very humiliating, so do not film pranks without agreement.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	csubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	online	online	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	humiliating	humiliate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	film	film	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
17	pranks	prank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund · passive | many people |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | can |  |  |  |  |  | humiliate *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **film** | infinitive · do-support |  | pranks |  |  |  | without agreement | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=Theme |

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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:22`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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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