--- title: Saying or writing that two people love each other, faking a love not… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics description: Saying or writing that two people love each other, faking a love note, or passing on rumours about someone's private life can embarrass and hurt them, so it is not a harmless joke. Who acts: two people, Saying, life. 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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 (two people, Saying, life), 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:22 # text = Saying or writing that two people love each other, faking a love note, or passing on rumours about someone's private life can embarrass and hurt them, so it is not a harmless joke. # 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): no change 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 csubj _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 8 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 7 obj _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 fixed _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 faking fake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 rumours rumour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 embarrass embarrass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **write** | gerund | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **love** | present | two people | each | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | | 4 | **fake** | gerund | | a love note | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Patient | | 5 | **pass on** | gerund | | rumours | | | | about someone's private life | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumour=Theme | | 6 | **embarrass** | can | Saying | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **hurt** | infinitive | Saying *not said here* | people | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | | 8 | **not** **is a** | present | life | a harmless joke | | | | | tree rules | 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: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): no change. **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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