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title: Joking about people with more power than you is called punching up. — Memes, clips and jokes about politicians · tree and pragmatics
description: Joking about people with more power than you is called punching up. A sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, sentence 12

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Joking about people with more power than you is called punching up.

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**What happens:** joke, call, punch up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Memes, clips and jokes about politicians» of the politics 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: 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:12
# text = Joking about people with more power than you is called punching up.
# 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): no change
1	Joking	joke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	punching	punch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about people with more power than you | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about people=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **punch up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:politics:013-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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