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title: Joining in alongside someone being laughed at can turn mocking into… — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: Joining in alongside someone being laughed at can turn mocking into fun. Who acts: Joining. A sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Standing by a friend, sentence 29

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Joining in alongside someone being laughed at can turn mocking into fun.

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**Who acts:** Joining · **What happens:** join in, laugh, turn, mock · **To what, where:** fun

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» 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 (Joining), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:29
# text = Joining in alongside someone being laughed at can turn mocking into fun.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 370-standing-by-a-friend.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Joining	join	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
3	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **join in** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | alongside someone | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V» |
| 3 | **turn** | can | Joining |  |  | fun |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into fun=Trajectory |
| 4 | **mock** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:29`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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