Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 19

A sudden fright can make people fall or feel unwell, so never scare people near stairs or roads, or people who are frail or have a heart condition.

Who acts: sudden fright, people · What happens: make, fall, feel, not scare, be, have · To what, where: people, stairs, heart condition

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 (sudden fright, people), 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	3 fright	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fright	amod
3	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	xcomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 feel	cc
9	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fall	conj
10	unwell	unwell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feel	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scare	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 scare	advmod
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 scare	advmod
14	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 make	parataxis
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 scare	obj
16	near	near	ADP	_	17 stairs	case
17	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 scare	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 roads	cc
19	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stairs	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 people	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 people	cc
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stairs	conj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 frail	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 frail	cop
25	frail	frail	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	acl:relcl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 have	cc
27	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 frail	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 condition	det
29	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 condition	compound
30	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	can	a sudden fright	people			tree rules
2	fall	infinitive	people not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feel	infinitive	people not said here			unwell property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	not scare	infinitive		people	stairs or roads or people		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
5	is	present	people			frail property	tree rules
6	have	present	people not said here	a heart condition			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=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, 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:19.

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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