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title: Inviting the whole class except one person is crueller than inviting… — Teasing and laughing at others · tree and pragmatics
description: Inviting the whole class except one person is crueller than inviting just a few friends. Who acts: Inviting. 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.
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# Teasing and laughing at others, sentence 18

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Inviting the whole class except one person is crueller than inviting just a few friends.

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**Who acts:** Inviting · **What happens:** invite, be · **To what, where:** whole class, few friends

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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 (Inviting), 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:18
# text = Inviting the whole class except one person is crueller than inviting just a few friends.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	except	except	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	crueller	cruel	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	inviting	invite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | gerund |  | the whole class |  |  |  | except one person | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Inviting |  |  |  |  | cruel *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **invite** | gerund | Inviting *not said here* |  | a few friends |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |

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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.

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**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: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): 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/).

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