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title: Some people laugh; Ruaridh doesn't feel like laughing. — Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row no… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some people laugh; Ruaridh doesn't feel like laughing. Who acts: people, Ruaridh. A sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains, sentence 23

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Some people laugh; Ruaridh doesn't feel like laughing.

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**Who acts:** people, Ruaridh · **What happens:** laugh, not feel

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Family parties, aunts and uncles, and the row nobody explains» 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 (people, Ruaridh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:23
# text = Some people laugh; Ruaridh doesn't feel like laughing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
5	Ruaridh	Ruaridh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **laugh** | present | some people |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **feel** | present · do-support | Ruaridh |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **laugh** | gerund | Ruaridh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:511-family-parties-aunts-and-uncles-and-the-row-nobody-explains.lesson:23`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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