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title: And no joke is worth danger: "Don't believe in gravity? — Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being… · tree and pragmatics
description: And no joke is worth danger: "Don't believe in gravity? Who acts: joke. A sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 10

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And no joke is worth danger: "Don't believe in gravity?

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**Who acts:** joke · **What happens:** be, not believe · **To what, where:** gravity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» 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 (joke), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:10
# text = And no joke is worth danger: "Don't believe in gravity?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.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	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	believe	believe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gravity	gravity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | no joke |  |  |  |  | danger *obl*; worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | present · do-support |  |  |  | gravity |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:world:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:10`.

**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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