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title: Jokes are for sharing a laugh. — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Jokes are for sharing a laugh. Who acts: Jokes. A sentence of the lesson «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 2

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Jokes are for sharing a laugh.

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**Who acts:** Jokes · **What happens:** be

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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 (Jokes), 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:2
# text = Jokes are for sharing a laugh.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
4	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Jokes |  |  |  |  | share *property* | tree rules |

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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:2`.

**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): 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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