--- title: Teasing a child for being rich, or for being poor, is unkind either… — Every family is different · tree and pragmatics description: Teasing a child for being rich, or for being poor, is unkind either way. Who acts: Teasing. A sentence of the lesson «Every family is different» 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/486-every-family-is-different/33/) [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/) / [Every family is different](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/486-every-family-is-different/) / 33 # Every family is different, sentence 33 Teasing a child for being rich, or for being poor, is unkind either way. **Who acts:** Teasing · **What happens:** tease, be · **To what, where:** child This is a sentence of the lesson «Every family is different» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:486-every-family-is-different.lesson:33 # text = Teasing a child for being rich, or for being poor, is unkind either way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 486-every-family-is-different.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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 for for SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 cop _ _ 6 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 11 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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 | **tease** | gerund | | a child | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 2 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | rich *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | poor *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | Teasing | | | | | either way *obl:unmarked*; unkind *property* | 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:486-every-family-is-different.lesson:33`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Every family is different, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/486-every-family-is-different/32/) - next →: [Every family is different, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/486-every-family-is-different/34/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/486-every-family-is-different/)