--- title: Kids post mean jokes about their teacher, Mr Okafor: «It's private,… — The group chat that turns · tree and pragmatics description: Kids post mean jokes about their teacher, Mr Okafor: «It's private, he'll never see it.» Someone's sister shows her mum, who is a teacher. Who acts: Kids, teacher, Connor, sister. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kids, teacher, Connor, sister), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:479-the-group-chat-that-turns.lesson:19 # text = Kids post mean jokes about their teacher, Mr Okafor: «It's private, he'll never see it.» Someone's sister shows her mum, who is a teacher. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 479-the-group-chat-that-turns.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 post post VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 3 mean mean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 Okafor Okafor PROPN NNP _ 9 flat _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 13 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 24 Someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Number=Sing|Poss=Yes|PronType=Ind 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 acl:relcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **post** | present | Kids | mean jokes | | | | about Kids's teacher | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Theme | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | teacher | | | | | private *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | future | Connor | teacher | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **show** | present | Someone's sister | | sister's mum | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | | 5 | **is a** | present | sister's mum | a teacher | | | | | tree rules | 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:479-the-group-chat-that-turns.lesson:19`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The group chat that turns, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/479-the-group-chat-that-turns/17/) - next →: [The group chat that turns, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/479-the-group-chat-that-turns/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/479-the-group-chat-that-turns/)