--- title: Playing along with a younger child's jokes builds friendship and hel… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusi… · tree and pragmatics description: Playing along with a younger child's jokes builds friendship and helps them learn language. Who acts: Playing, Adverts, younger child. 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 dependency tree a --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 9 Playing along with a younger child's jokes builds friendship and helps them learn language. **Who acts:** Playing, Adverts, younger child · **What happens:** play, build, help, learn, joke · **To what, where:** friendship, Adverts, language 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, Adverts, younger child), 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:9 # text = Playing along with a younger child's jokes builds friendship and helps them learn language. # 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): no change 1 Playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 along along ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 9 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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** | gerund | | | | | | along a younger child's jokes | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **build** | present | Playing | friendship | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=Product | | 3 | **help** | present | Playing *not said here* | Adverts *= advert* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **learn** | infinitive | Adverts *= advert* *not said here* | language | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic | | 5 | **joke** | | a younger child | | | | | | nom joke «communication intransitive»: 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:9`. **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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