Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 11
Example: a girl in Auckland hides a rubber snake in her brother's drawer, and he screams and cries, because he is truly scared of snakes.
Who acts: girl, snake · What happens: hide, scream, cry, be · To what, where: rubber snake, drawer
This is a sentence of the lesson «Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?» of the everyday 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 (girl, snake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 hides | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hides | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Auckland | case |
| 6 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | nmod |
| 7 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Example | appos |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 snake | det |
| 9 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 snake | compound |
| 10 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hides | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 drawer | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drawer | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 brother | case |
| 15 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hides | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 screams | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 screams | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 screams | nsubj |
| 19 | screams | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hides | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cries | cc |
| 21 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 screams | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 scared | punct |
| 23 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 scared | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 scared | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 scared | cop |
| 26 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 27 scared | advmod |
| 27 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hides | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 snakes | case |
| 29 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 scared | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | a girl in Auckland | a rubber snake | girl's brother's drawer | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent snake=Patient in drawer=Location | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | present | snake | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | present | snake not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | snake | of snakes; scared, truly property | tree rules |
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, 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:everyday:204-pranks.lesson:11.
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 ×3, R6-punct-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.
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