--- title: Laughing at what the powerful do can help keep them honest, and you… — Memes, clips and jokes about politicians · tree and pragmatics description: Laughing at what the powerful do can help keep them honest, and you can laugh at a leader and still like them. Who acts: powerful, Laughing, you. 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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 (powerful, Laughing, you), 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:3 # text = Laughing at what the powerful do can help keep them honest, and you can laugh at a leader and still like them. # 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 Laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 1 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ _ 6 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** | present | powerful | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** | can | Laughing | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | infinitive | Laughing *not said here* | People | | | | honest *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **laugh** | can | you | | | a leader | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **like** | infinitive | you *not said here* | People | | | still | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | 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:3`. **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/). - ← previous: [Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/13-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians/2/) - next →: [Memes, clips and jokes about politicians, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/13-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/13-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians/)