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title: Being laughed at often makes autistic children's stress much worse,… — Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to spea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Being laughed at often makes autistic children's stress much worse, while kindness helps them cope. Who acts: kindness, children, autistic children. A sentence of the lesson «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, AD
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# Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden disabilities, sentence 23

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Being laughed at often makes autistic children's stress much worse, while kindness helps them cope.

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**Who acts:** kindness, children, autistic children · **What happens:** laugh at, make, help, cope, stress · **To what, where:** stress, children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Visiting, thanking for presents, waiting to speak, places of worship and museums, compliments, and classmates with autism, ADHD or hidden 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 (kindness, children, autistic children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.lesson:23
# text = Being laughed at often makes autistic children's stress much worse, while kindness helps them cope.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.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 ×2
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	csubj:pass	_	_
3	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	autistic	autistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	stress	stress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	cope	cope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **laugh at** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V» |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | autistic children's stress |  |  |  | bad, often *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stress=Product |
| 3 | **help** | present | kindness | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **cope** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cope-83-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stress** |  | autistic children |  |  |  |  |  | nom stress «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:324-visiting-thank-you-notes-interrupting-quiet-places-compliments-and-differences.lesson:23`.

**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 ×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.

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

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