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title: Posting a photo of someone to laugh at them, and "piling on" (everyo… — Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the sp… · tree and pragmatics
description: Posting a photo of someone to laugh at them, and "piling on" (everyone joining in), is a form of bullying; saving screenshots as proof and telling a grown-up is the right move. Who acts: everyone, grown up. A sentence of the lesson «Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight» of the ref
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# Laughed at: photos, scores, nicknames and the spotlight, sentence 6

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Posting a photo of someone to laugh at them, and "piling on" (everyone joining in), is a form of bullying; saving screenshots as proof and telling a grown-up is the right move.

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**Who acts:** everyone, grown up · **What happens:** post, laugh, pile on, join in, be, save · **To what, where:** photo, form, screenshots, right move · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (everyone, grown up), 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:6
# text = Posting a photo of someone to laugh at them, and "piling on" (everyone joining in), is a form of bullying; saving screenshots as proof and telling a grown-up is the right move.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Posting	post	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	piling	pile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	24	nsubj	_	_
18	joining	join	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	bullying	bullying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nmod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
29	screenshots	screenshot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	_
37	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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 | **post** | gerund |  | a photo of someone |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme |
| 2 | **laugh** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at screenshots *= screenshot* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pile on** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **join in** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | everyone | a form and the right move |  |  |  | of bullying | tree rules |
| 6 | **save** | gerund |  | screenshots |  |  |  | as proof | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent screenshot=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a grown up |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **is a** | present | everyone *not said here* | the right move |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:6`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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