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title: Teasing someone for growing faster or slower than others is unkind. — Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Teasing someone for growing faster or slower than others is unkind. Who acts: Teasing. A sentence of the lesson «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed, sentence 18

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Teasing someone for growing faster or slower than others is unkind.

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**Who acts:** Teasing · **What happens:** tease, grow, be · **To what, where:** someone

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Helping in the kitchen, bathroom privacy, screen time, playing fair and growing at your own speed» 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 (Teasing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.lesson:18
# text = Teasing someone for growing faster or slower than others is unkind.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Teasing	tease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	advcl	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tease** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Teasing |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |

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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:321-kitchen-help-privacy-screens-fair-play-and-growing.lesson:18`.

**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): R7-rel-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.

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

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