--- title: Laughing at someone for a long time makes them scared to try; laugh… — Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being… · tree and pragmatics description: Laughing at someone for a long time makes them scared to try; laugh briefly with them, then help. Who acts: Laughing, seeds. 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 ev --- [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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel, sentence 23 Laughing at someone for a long time makes them scared to try; laugh briefly with them, then help. **Who acts:** Laughing, seeds · **What happens:** laugh, make, try, help · **To what, where:** someone, seeds 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 (Laughing, seeds), 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:23 # text = Laughing at someone for a long time makes them scared to try; laugh briefly with them, then help. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 1 obl _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 15 briefly briefly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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** | gerund | | | | someone | time | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | present | Laughing | seeds *= seed* | | | | scared *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 3 | **try** | to-infinitive | seeds *= seed* *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **laugh** | infinitive | Laughing *not said here* | | | | | with seeds *= seed*; briefly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help** | infinitive | Laughing *not said here* | | | | then | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:23`. **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, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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