--- title: Making fun of someone's dead parent is cruel; tell a teacher straigh… — Promises, memory and keeping each other safe · tree and pragmatics description: Making fun of someone's dead parent is cruel; tell a teacher straight away. Who acts: Making. A sentence of the lesson «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/79-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Promises, memory and keeping each othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/79-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe/) / 16 # Promises, memory and keeping each other safe, sentence 16 Making fun of someone's dead parent is cruel; tell a teacher straight away. **Who acts:** Making · **What happens:** make, be, tell · **To what, where:** fun, teacher · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» 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 (Making), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.lesson:16 # text = Making fun of someone's dead parent is cruel; tell a teacher straight away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 11 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 straight straight ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=evaluate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | gerund | | fun of someone's dead parent | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product | | 2 | **is** | present | Making | | | | | cruel *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | a teacher | | | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | 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:religion-ethics:079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.lesson:16`. **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, 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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