--- title: Sharing silly jokes, like knock-knock jokes, builds friendship and h… — Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in ga… · tree and pragmatics description: Sharing silly jokes, like knock-knock jokes, builds friendship and helps younger children learn language. Who acts: Sharing, younger children. A sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/17/) [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/) / [Saying no honestly, harmful lies, chea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/) / 17 # Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 17 Sharing silly jokes, like knock-knock jokes, builds friendship and helps younger children learn language. **Who acts:** Sharing, younger children · **What happens:** share, build, help, learn · **To what, where:** silly jokes, friendship, younger children, language This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» 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 (Sharing, younger children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:17 # text = Sharing silly jokes, like knock-knock jokes, builds friendship and helps younger children learn language. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sharing share VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj 2 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 knock knock NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 11 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** | gerund | | silly jokes and knock jokes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **build** | present | Sharing | friendship | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friendship=Product | | 3 | **help** | present | Sharing *not said here* | younger children | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **learn** | infinitive | younger children *not said here* | language | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Topic | 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:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:17`. **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, R8-pos-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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