--- title: Laughing at how someone looks, speaks or moves can hurt them for a l… — Teasing and laughing at others · tree and pragmatics description: Laughing at how someone looks, speaks or moves can hurt them for a long time. Who acts: someone, moves. 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/14/) [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/) / 14 # Teasing and laughing at others, sentence 14 Laughing at how someone looks, speaks or moves can hurt them for a long time. **Who acts:** someone, moves · **What happens:** laugh, look, speak, hurt · **To what, where:** people · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (someone, moves), 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:14 # text = Laughing at how someone looks, speaks or moves can hurt them for a long time. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 at at SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 5 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 moves move NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** | present | someone | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hurt** | can | moves | people | | | time | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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:14`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Teasing and laughing at others, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/13/) - next →: [Teasing and laughing at others, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/346-teasing-and-laughing-at-others/)