Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 24
Animals do not understand jokes; pranks frighten, stress or hurt them.
Who acts: Animals, pranks · What happens: not understand, frighten, hurt · To what, where: jokes, animals
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 (Animals, pranks), 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 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 understand | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 understand | advmod |
| 4 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 understand | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 frighten | punct |
| 7 | pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 frighten | nsubj |
| 8 | frighten | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stress | punct |
| 10 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frighten | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 hurt | cc |
| 12 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hurt | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | present · do-support | Animals | jokes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | frighten | present | pranks | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | hurt | present | Animals not said here | animals = animal | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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:24.
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, R8-pos-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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