--- title: Laugh at the idea, not the person: mocking a person makes them less… — Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being… · tree and pragmatics description: Laugh at the idea, not the person: mocking a person makes them less likely to learn. Who acts: you, mocking, idea. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/17/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Saying "I was wrong" and laughing with…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel/) / 17 # Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 17 Laugh at the idea, not the person: mocking a person makes them less likely to learn. **Who acts:** you, mocking, idea · **What happens:** laugh, mock, make, learn · **To what, where:** idea, person 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 (you, mocking, idea), 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:17 # text = Laugh at the idea, not the person: mocking a person makes them less likely to learn. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Laugh laugh VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 mocking mock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 16 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | the idea and the person | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mock** | gerund | | a person | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | mocking | idea | | | | likely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive | idea *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «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:190-saying-i-was-wrong-and-laughing-without-being-cruel.lesson:17`. **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): 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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