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title: Laughter can be friendly, not mean; people often like you more if yo… — Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the sp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Laughter can be friendly, not mean; people often like you more if you can laugh at yourself. Who acts: Laughter, people, you. A sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 16

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Laughter can be friendly, not mean; people often like you more if you can laugh at yourself.

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**Who acts:** Laughter, people, you · **What happens:** be, not be, like, laugh · **To what, where:** you

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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 (Laughter, people, 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:16
# text = Laughter can be friendly, not mean; people often like you more if you can laugh at yourself.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | Laughter |  |  |  |  | friendly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **be** |  | Laughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** | present | people | you |  |  |  | often *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
| 4 | **laugh** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you |  |  |  |  | at yourself | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:16`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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