--- title: Silly knock-knock jokes with a little brother build friendship and h… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics description: Silly knock-knock jokes with a little brother build friendship and help him learn words. Who acts: Silly knock jokes, test. 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 eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/3/) [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/) / [Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pran…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/) / 3 # Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 3 Silly knock-knock jokes with a little brother build friendship and help him learn words. **Who acts:** Silly knock jokes, test · **What happens:** build, help, learn · **To what, where:** friendship, test, words 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 (Silly knock jokes, test), 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:3 # text = Silly knock-knock jokes with a little brother build friendship and help him learn words. # 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 Silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 2 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | present | Silly knock jokes with a little brother | friendship | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=Product | | 2 | **help** | present | Silly knock jokes with a little brother *not said here* | test | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **learn** | infinitive | test *not said here* | words | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | 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:3`. **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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