Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 21
Prank calls can scare or annoy people, especially older people living alone.
Who acts: Prank calls, older people · What happens: scare, annoy, live · To what, where: people
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 calls, older 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 | Prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 calls | compound |
| 2 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scare | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 scare | aux |
| 4 | scare | scare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 annoy | cc |
| 6 | annoy | annoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 scare | conj |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 annoy | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 people | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 11 people | advmod |
| 10 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 people | appos |
| 12 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 people | acl |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 12 living | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scare | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare | can | Prank calls | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | annoy | infinitive | Prank calls not said here | people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | older people not said here | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:21.
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 ×1, 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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