Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 20

For someone with a real fear, like of spiders or snakes, a fake one can cause panic rather than fun.

Who acts: fake one · What happens: cause · To what, where: panic

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 (fake one), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 someone	case
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 cause	obl
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 fear	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fear	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fear	amod
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 someone	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spiders	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 spiders	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 spiders	case
10	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 someone	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 snakes	cc
12	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 spiders	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 someone	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cause	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 cause	aux
18	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cause	obj
20	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	22 fun	cc
21	than	than	ADP	_	20 rather	fixed
22	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 panic	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 cause	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	can	a fake one	panic rather fun				for someone	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition panic=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:20.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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