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title: Taking or posting photos of people to laugh at them is unkind, and i… — Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing mom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking or posting photos of people to laugh at them is unkind, and it is okay to ask for them to be deleted. Who acts: Taking. A sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 19

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Taking or posting photos of people to laugh at them is unkind, and it is okay to ask for them to be deleted.

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**Who acts:** Taking · **What happens:** take, post, laugh, be, ask, delete · **To what, where:** photos, photo

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» 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 (Taking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson:19
# text = Taking or posting photos of people to laugh at them is unkind, and it is okay to ask for them to be deleted.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	posting	post	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
4	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:xcomp
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	deleted	delete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **take** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **post** | gerund |  | photos of people |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme |
| 3 | **laugh** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at photo | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | Taking |  |  |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | Taking *not said here* |  |  |  |  | okay *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **delete** | to-infinitive · passive |  | photo |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson:19`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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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