Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 23
Damaging property in a prank means someone must clean or pay for it, and it can be a crime.
Who acts: Damaging, someone, agreement · What happens: damaging, mean, clean, pay, be · To what, where: property, prank, crime · 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 (Damaging, someone, agreement), 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 | Damaging | damaging | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | csubj |
| 2 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Damaging | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 prank | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prank | det |
| 5 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Damaging | obl |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 clean | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 clean | aux |
| 9 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | ccomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 pay | cc |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 clean | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pay | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crime | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 crime | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 crime | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 crime | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 crime | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 crime | det |
| 20 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | damaging | gerund | property | a prank | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | Damaging | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | clean | must | someone | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | pay | infinitive | someone not said here | for agreement | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | can | agreement | a crime | 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:23.
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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