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title: Giggling during prayers can disturb people who are praying around you. — Giggles, skipping and the collection plate · tree and pragmatics
description: Giggling during prayers can disturb people who are praying around you. Who acts: Giggling, people. A sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 24

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Giggling during prayers can disturb people who are praying around you.

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**Who acts:** Giggling, people · **What happens:** giggle, disturb, pray · **To what, where:** people

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Giggles, skipping and the collection plate» 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 (Giggling, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:24
# text = Giggling during prayers can disturb people who are praying around you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.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	Giggling	giggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj
2	during	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	disturb	disturb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	praying	pray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **giggle** | gerund |  |  |  |  | during prayers |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **disturb** | can | Giggling | people |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
| 3 | **pray** | present · progressive | people |  |  |  |  | around you | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:24`.

**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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