--- title: Teasing someone about their accent or the language they speak at hom… — Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in ga… · tree and pragmatics description: Teasing someone about their accent or the language they speak at home is unkind, and you can stand up for them or stay with them. Who acts: brother, Teasing, you. A sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» of the everyday course of Mov --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 7 Teasing someone about their accent or the language they speak at home is unkind, and you can stand up for them or stay with them. **Who acts:** brother, Teasing, you · **What happens:** tease, speak, be, stand up, stay, accent · **To what, where:** someone, language, home · **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 (brother, Teasing, you), 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:7 # text = Teasing someone about their accent or the language they speak at home is unkind, and you can stand up for them or stay with them. # 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 1 Teasing tease VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 csubj _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obj _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 accent accent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 language language NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 speak speak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** | gerund | | someone | | | | about brother's accent | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | brother | the language *not said here* | | home | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | Teasing | | | | | unkind *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **stand up** | can | you | | | | | for brother | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | with brother | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location | | 6 | **accent** | | brother | | | | | | 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:7`. **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. 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