--- title: Joking about what someone does is different from joking about their… — Memes, clips and jokes about politicians · tree and pragmatics description: Joking about what someone does is different from joking about their body or looks, which says nothing about their work and hurts people who look the same. Who acts: someone, Joking, looks, people. 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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 (someone, Joking, looks, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:11 # text = Joking about what someone does is different from joking about their body or looks, which says nothing about their work and hurts people who look the same. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Joking joke VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 about about ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 1 obl _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ _ 5 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 from from SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 joking joke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl 10 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 14 looks look NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 obj _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 24 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about what=Topic | | 2 | **do** | present | someone | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | Joking | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund | Joking *not said here* | | | | | about hundreds's body or looks | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about body=Topic | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | looks | nothing | | | | about hundreds's work | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 6 | **hurt** | present | looks *not said here* | people | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient | | 7 | **look** | present | people | the same | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute | | 8 | **work** | | hundreds *= hundred* | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:11`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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