Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 18
A prank that spoils someone's food or day is not funny to them.
Who acts: prank · What happens: spoil, not be · To what, where: food, feelings
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 (prank), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prank | det |
| 2 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 funny | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 spoils | nsubj |
| 4 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 prank | acl:relcl |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 food | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 someone | case |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoils | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 day | cc |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 food | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 funny | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 funny | advmod |
| 12 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 funny | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 funny | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | present | a prank | someone's food or day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | a prank | feelings = feeling | funny 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:18.
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.
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