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title: Jokes about someone's dead relative can hurt, even when nobody means… — Souls, ghosts and stories · tree and pragmatics
description: Jokes about someone's dead relative can hurt, even when nobody means harm. Who acts: Jokes, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Souls, ghosts and stories, sentence 18

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Jokes about someone's dead relative can hurt, even when nobody means harm.

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**Who acts:** Jokes, nobody · **What happens:** hurt, mean · **To what, where:** harm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Souls, ghosts and stories» of the religion ethics 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 (Jokes, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.lesson:18
# text = Jokes about someone's dead relative can hurt, even when nobody means harm.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.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): no change
1	Jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **hurt** | can | Jokes about someone's dead relative |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **mean** | present | nobody | harm |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Topic |

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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:religion-ethics:074-souls-ghosts-and-stories.lesson:18`.

**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): no change. **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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