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title: Teasing is only banter if everyone, including the person teased, is… — Nice alone, mean in a group · tree and pragmatics
description: Teasing is only banter if everyone, including the person teased, is laughing. Who acts: Teasing, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nice alone, mean in a group, sentence 26

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Teasing is only banter if everyone, including the person teased, is laughing.

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**Who acts:** Teasing, everyone · **What happens:** be, tease, laugh · **To what, where:** banter, person

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nice alone, mean in a group» 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 (Teasing, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.lesson:26
# text = Teasing is only banter if everyone, including the person teased, is laughing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.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	Teasing	tease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	banter	banter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	including	include	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	teased	tease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Teasing | banter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tease** | participle |  | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **laugh** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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:468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group.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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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