--- title: Teasing a child for being rich is as unkind as teasing a child for b… — Rich families: the big house, the nanny and neve… · tree and pragmatics description: Teasing a child for being rich is as unkind as teasing a child for being poor. Who acts: Teasing. A sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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/491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad/40/) [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/) / [Rich families: the big house, the nann…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad/) / 40 # Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad, sentence 40 Teasing a child for being rich is as unkind as teasing a child for being poor. **Who acts:** Teasing · **What happens:** tease, be · **To what, where:** child This is a sentence of the lesson «Rich families: the big house, the nanny and never seeing Dad» 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:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:40 # text = Teasing a child for being rich is as unkind as teasing a child for being poor. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.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): R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Teasing tease VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 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 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 teasing tease VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 15 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 cop _ _ 16 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obl 17 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - 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** | present | Teasing | | | | | unkind *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **tease** | gerund | Teasing *not said here* | a child | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 5 | **is** | gerund | Teasing *not said here* | | | | | poor *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:491-rich-families-the-big-house-the-nanny-and-never-seeing-dad.lesson:40`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×4. **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. 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