--- title: "It's not banter if only one side is laughing": a joke that only the… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics description: "It's not banter if only one side is laughing": a joke that only the joker enjoys is picking on someone. Who acts: insult, one side, joker, joke. 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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 (insult, one side, joker, joke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.lesson:9 # text = "It's not banter if only one side is laughing": a joke that only the joker enjoys is picking on someone. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 banter banter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:acl 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 obj _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 joker joker NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 enjoys enjoy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | insult | banter | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **laugh** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · progressive | one side | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **enjoy** | present | the joker | a joke | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | | 4 | **pick** | present · progressive | a joke | | | | | on someone | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on someone=Patient | 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:reflection:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.lesson:9`. **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): R7-rel-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. 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