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A sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 10 Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking someone's accent is unkind; stand up for them or stay with them. **Who acts:** Speaking, someone · **What happens:** speak, be, mock, stand up, stay, accent · **To what, where:** one language, skill, accent · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Speaking, 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:10 # text = Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking someone's accent is unkind; stand up for them or stay with them. # 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 ×2 1 Speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 3 than than ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 mocking mock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 12 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | one language | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a skill | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mock** | gerund | | someone's accent | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | Speaking | | | | | unkind *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **stand up** | infinitive | Speaking *not said here* | | | | | for Adverts *= advert* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **stay** | infinitive | Speaking *not said here* | | | | | with Adverts *= advert* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location | | 7 | **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:10`. **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 ×2. **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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