--- title: Laughing is allowed, and good laughing is aimed at the idea, never a… — Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being… · tree and pragmatics description: Laughing is allowed, and good laughing is aimed at the idea, never at the person: "Cows drink milk? Who acts: Cows. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cows), 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:5 # text = Laughing is allowed, and good laughing is aimed at the idea, never at the person: "Cows drink milk? # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 laughing laughing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 aimed aim VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 Cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 22 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **allow** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **aim** | present · passive | | good laughing | | the idea and the person | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **drink** *in a quote* | present | Cows | milk | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | 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:5`. **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): R8-pos-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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