--- title: Families often tease about funny moments; it usually means affection… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics description: Families often tease about funny moments; it usually means affection, but it can still sting, and laughing along over time turns it into a shared joke. Who acts: Families, netball, laughing. 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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 (Families, netball, laughing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:8 # text = Families often tease about funny moments; it usually means affection, but it can still sting, and laughing along over time turns it into a shared joke. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 tease tease VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 moments moment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 affection affection NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 sting sting VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 csubj _ _ 21 along along ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 over over ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound 24 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 29 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** | present | Families | | | | moment | often *property* | vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | present | netball | affection | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Topic | | 3 | **sting** | can | netball | | | | still | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | time | along *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **turn** | present | laughing | netball | | a shared joke | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into joke=Trajectory | | 6 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:8`. **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, R5-strong ×1, 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. 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