--- title: When the teacher made them include him, he turned out to be the best… — Teasing and laughing at others · tree and pragmatics description: When the teacher made them include him, he turned out to be the best player they had. Who acts: teacher, others, Josh. A sentence of the lesson «Teasing and laughing at others» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/11/) [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/) / [Teasing and laughing at others](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/) / 11 # Teasing and laughing at others, sentence 11 When the teacher made them include him, he turned out to be the best player they had. **Who acts:** teacher, others, Josh · **What happens:** make, include, turn out, be, have · **To what, where:** others, Josh, best player This is a sentence of the lesson «Teasing and laughing at others» 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 (teacher, others, Josh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others.lesson:11 # text = When the teacher made them include him, he turned out to be the best player they had. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others.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): no change 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 include include VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 cop _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 player player NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the teacher | others *= other* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **include** | infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* | Josh | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **turn out** | past | Josh | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Josh *not said here* | the best player | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | others *= other* | the best player *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Patient | 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:346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others.lesson:11`. **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): no change. **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/). - ← previous: [Teasing and laughing at others, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/9/) - next →: [Teasing and laughing at others, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/)