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title: If an older sibling teases you constantly, tell them how it makes yo… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics
description: If an older sibling teases you constantly, tell them how it makes you feel, and ask a parent for help if it continues. Who acts: older sibling, you, sibling. A sentence of the lesson «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 16

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If an older sibling teases you constantly, tell them how it makes you feel, and ask a parent for help if it continues.

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**Who acts:** older sibling, you, sibling · **What happens:** tease, tell, make, feel, ask, continue · **To what, where:** you, words, parent · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that 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 (older sibling, you, sibling), 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:16
# text = If an older sibling teases you constantly, tell them how it makes you feel, and ask a parent for help if it continues.
# 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): R5-strong ×3
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
3	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod
4	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	teases	tease	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	continues	continue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tease** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a older sibling | you |  |  |  | constantly *property* | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | words *= word* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | present | sibling | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a parent |  |  | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 6 | **continue** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | sibling |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.lesson:16`.

**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 ×3. **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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