--- title: Making fun of how someone sings hurts them, even if they sing loudly. — Giggles, skipping and the collection plate · tree and pragmatics description: Making fun of how someone sings hurts them, even if they sing loudly. Who acts: someone, Making, candles. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate/26/) [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/) / [Giggles, skipping and the collection p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate/) / 26 # Giggles, skipping and the collection plate, sentence 26 Making fun of how someone sings hurts them, even if they sing loudly. **Who acts:** someone, Making, candles · **What happens:** make, sing, hurt · **To what, where:** fun, candles 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 (someone, Making, candles), 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:26 # text = Making fun of how someone sings hurts them, even if they sing loudly. # 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): no change 1 Making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ _ 2 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sings sing VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 nmod _ _ 7 hurts hurt 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 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 even even ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 14 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | gerund | | fun | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | someone | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 3 | **hurt** | present | Making | candles *= candle* | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | candles *= candle* | | | | | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate.lesson:26`. **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): no change. **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. 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