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title: Banter is joking that is fun for everyone; if one person keeps getti… — Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Banter is joking that is fun for everyone; if one person keeps getting hurt day after day, it is not banter, it can be bullying, and a teacher should be told. Who acts: Banter, that, one person, person. A sentence of the lesson «Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult» of the la
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# Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult, sentence 13

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Banter is joking that is fun for everyone; if one person keeps getting hurt day after day, it is not banter, it can be bullying, and a teacher should be told.

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**Who acts:** Banter, that, one person, person · **What happens:** joke, be, keep, hurt, not be, tell · **To what, where:** banter, teacher · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Just a scratch and I'm fine: when to worry and tell an adult» of the language 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 (Banter, that, one person, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:051-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult.lesson:13
# text = Banter is joking that is fun for everyone; if one person keeps getting hurt day after day, it is not banter, it can be bullying, and a teacher should be told.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 051-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Banter	banter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:cop
3	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	getting	get	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	banter	banter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
28	bullying	bully	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **joke** *speech: other* | present · progressive | Banter |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | for everyone; fun *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one person |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hurt** | gerund · passive | one person *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | present | person | banter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | can | person |  |  |  |  | bully *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should · passive |  | a teacher |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:language:051-just-a-scratch-and-i-m-fine-when-to-worry-and-tell-an-adult.lesson:13`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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