--- title: Playing along with a younger child's silly jokes builds friendship a… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics description: Playing along with a younger child's silly jokes builds friendship and helps them learn language. Who acts: Playing, Jokes, younger child. 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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 (Playing, Jokes, younger child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.lesson:13 # text = Playing along with a younger child's silly jokes builds friendship and helps them learn language. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 2 along along ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 10 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 13 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | gerund | | | | | | along a younger child's silly jokes | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **build** | present | Playing | friendship | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=Product | | 3 | **help** | present | Playing *not said here* | Jokes *= joke* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **learn** | infinitive | Jokes *= joke* *not said here* | language | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic | | 5 | **joke** | | a younger child | | | | | | nom joke «communication 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:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.lesson:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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. 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