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title: Being laughed at can happen in a second, on a phone screen or out lo… — Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the sp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Being laughed at can happen in a second, on a phone screen or out loud in class, and then live for days in your head, getting bigger every time you check or replay it. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection course of Mova's
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# Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 0

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Being laughed at can happen in a second, on a phone screen or out loud in class, and then live for days in your head, getting bigger every time you check or replay it.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** laugh at, happen, live, get, check, replay · **To what, where:** second, phone screen, head, time

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:0
# text = Being laughed at can happen in a second, on a phone screen or out loud in class, and then live for days in your head, getting bigger every time you check or replay it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	csubj:pass	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det
8	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
16	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
30	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	replay	replay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 at** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V» |
| 2 | **happen** | can |  | a second |  | a phone screen or class |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in screen=Location |
| 3 | **live** | infinitive |  |  |  | your head | then; day |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=Location |
| 4 | **get** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **check** | present | you | every time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme |
| 6 | **replay** | present | you *not said here* | head |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:reflection:010-laughed-at-photos-scores-nicknames-and-the-spotlight.lesson:0`.

**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 ×3, 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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