Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 2
Before any prank, ask: Could anyone get hurt?
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, hurt · To what, where: anyone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 prank | case |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 prank | det |
| 3 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 prank | punct |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 hurt | punct |
| 7 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hurt | aux |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 hurt | nsubj |
| 9 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hurt | aux:pass |
| 10 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ask | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | before any prank | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hurt | could · passive | anyone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:2.
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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