--- title: Families take the mickey (tease and make fun) out of the reasoning,… — Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions · tree and pragmatics description: Families take the mickey (tease and make fun) out of the reasoning, not the person: "Grandad, the players can't even see your socks, mate." Grandad can love his socks and still laugh along. Who acts: Families, players, Grandad. 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Grandad can love his socks and still laugh along. **Who acts:** Families, players, Grandad · **What happens:** take, make, not see, love, laugh · **To what, where:** mickey, reasoning, fun, socks · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» of the world 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 (Families, players, Grandad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.lesson:9 # text = Families take the mickey (tease and make fun) out of the reasoning, not the person: "Grandad, the players can't even see your socks, mate." Grandad can love his socks and still laugh along. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mickey mickey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 6 tease tease NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 9 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 11 out out ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 reasoning reasoning NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:appos 19 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 players player NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 25 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 even even ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 parataxis _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 35 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=37:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 socks sock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 still still ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 43 along along ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | Families | the mickey and tease | | the reasoning and the person Grandad | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent mickey=Theme out reasoning=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **make** | infinitive | Families *not said here* | fun | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product | | 3 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | can | the players | your socks | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sock=Stimulus | | 4 | **love** | can | Grandad | Grandad's socks | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sock=Stimulus | | 5 | **laugh** | present | Grandad *not said here* | | | | still | along *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:world:161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/8/) - next →: [Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/161-lucky-socks-and-grandmas-superstitions/)