--- title: Playing along with a little brother's silly knock-knock joke is kind… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusi… · tree and pragmatics description: Playing along with a little brother's silly knock-knock joke is kind; mocking someone's accent or home language is not. Who acts: Playing, little brother, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» of the everyday course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/1/) [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/) / [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/) / 1 # Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 1 Playing along with a little brother's silly knock-knock joke is kind; mocking someone's accent or home language is not. **Who acts:** Playing, little brother, someone · **What happens:** play along, be, mock, not be, joke, accent · **To what, where:** accent This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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 (Playing, little brother, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:1 # text = Playing along with a little brother's silly knock-knock joke is kind; mocking someone's accent or home language is not. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ _ 2 along along ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 3 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 9 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 16 mocking mock VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 17 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play along** | gerund | | | | | | with a little brother's silly knock joke; along *property* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with joke=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | Playing | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **mock** | gerund | Playing *not said here* | someone's accent or home language | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **be** | present | Playing *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **joke** | | a little brother | | | | | | nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **accent** | | someone | | | | | | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:1`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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. 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