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title: Never tease, stare at or point at someone who looks different from y… — Compliments, respecting differences and disabili… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never tease, stare at or point at someone who looks different from you, in skin colour, size or face. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities, sentence 12

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Never tease, stare at or point at someone who looks different from you, in skin colour, size or face.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not tease, stare, point, look · **To what, where:** someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Compliments, respecting differences and disabilities» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.lesson:12
# text = Never tease, stare at or point at someone who looks different from you, in skin colour, size or face.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	tease	tease	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	stare	stare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	point	point	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **tease** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stare** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **point** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | someone |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | present |  |  |  |  |  | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:298-compliments-differences-and-disabilities.lesson:12`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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