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title: Laughing at someone's wrong answer stops them trying. — Leaving someone out · tree and pragmatics
description: Laughing at someone's wrong answer stops them trying. Who acts: Laughing, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Leaving someone out» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Leaving someone out, sentence 20

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Laughing at someone's wrong answer stops them trying.

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**Who acts:** Laughing, someone · **What happens:** laugh, stop, try, answer · **To what, where:** wrong answer, Money

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Leaving someone out» 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 (Laughing, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:347-leaving-someone-out.lesson:20
# text = Laughing at someone's wrong answer stops them trying.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 347-leaving-someone-out.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	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  | someone's wrong answer |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | present | Laughing | Money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | Laughing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **answer** |  | someone |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:347-leaving-someone-out.lesson:20`.

**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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