--- title: Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking someone's ac… — Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in ga… · tree and pragmatics description: Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking someone's accent is unkind. Who acts: Speaking, someone. 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 with its dependency tree and th --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 18 Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking someone's accent is unkind. **Who acts:** Speaking, someone · **What happens:** speak, be, mock, accent · **To what, where:** one language, skill, accent · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Speaking, someone), 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:18 # text = Speaking more than one language is a skill, and mocking someone's accent is unkind. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 4 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 16 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 mocking mock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8: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 . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | 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 | Speaking | 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 | | | | | | unkind *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **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:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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