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title: A light laugh can sometimes be enough to call out someone who takes… — The copier and the one who competes at everything · tree and pragmatics
description: A light laugh can sometimes be enough to call out someone who takes credit for your idea. Who acts: light laugh. A sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The copier and the one who competes at everything, sentence 34

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A light laugh can sometimes be enough to call out someone who takes credit for your idea.

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**Who acts:** light laugh · **What happens:** be, call out, take · **To what, where:** someone, credit

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» 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 (light laugh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:34
# text = A light laugh can sometimes be enough to call out someone who takes credit for your idea.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | a light laugh |  |  |  |  | enough, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | a light laugh *not said here* |  | someone |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |
| 3 | **take** | present |  | credit |  |  |  | for your idea | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent credit=Theme for idea=Beneficiary |

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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:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:34`.

**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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