--- title: If someone makes a racist or mean joke, do not laugh; say it is not… — Compliments and respecting differences · tree and pragmatics description: If someone makes a racist or mean joke, do not laugh; say it is not okay or tell an adult. Who acts: someone, you, joke. A sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Compliments and respecting differences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/) / 18 # Compliments and respecting differences, sentence 18 If someone makes a racist or mean joke, do not laugh; say it is not okay or tell an adult. **Who acts:** someone, you, joke · **What happens:** make, not laugh, say, not be, tell · **To what, where:** racist joke, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments and respecting differences» 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 (someone, you, joke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:18 # text = If someone makes a racist or mean joke, do not laugh; say it is not okay or tell an adult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.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 ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 5 racist racist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 8 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | someone | a racist joke | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Product | | 2 | **not** **laugh** | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | joke | | | | | okay *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | joke *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | 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:226-compliments-and-respecting-differences.lesson:18`. **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 ×2. **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: [Compliments and respecting differences, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/17/) - next →: [Compliments and respecting differences, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/226-compliments-and-respecting-differences/)