--- title: Laughing at a fall, a stammer, glasses, someone's food or a wrong an… — Teasing and laughing at others · tree and pragmatics description: Laughing at a fall, a stammer, glasses, someone's food or a wrong answer makes people stop trying, stop bringing their lunch, stop putting their hand up. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:12 # text = Laughing at a fall, a stammer, glasses, someone's food or a wrong answer makes people stop trying, stop bringing their lunch, stop putting their hand up. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stammer stammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nsubj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 glasses glass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 20 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 24 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 xcomp _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 29 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 xcomp _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | a fall and a stammer and glasses and someone's food or a wrong answer | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **stop** | infinitive | | people | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **try** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **stop** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **bring** | gerund | | people's lunch | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme | | 7 | **stop** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **put up** | gerund | | people's hand | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | 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:12`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Teasing and laughing at others, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/11/) - next →: [Teasing and laughing at others, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/)