Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 28
Teenagers in Glasgow made a fake 999 call as a prank; an ambulance went to the address while a real patient across town had to wait longer for help.
Who acts: Teenagers, ambulance, real patient · What happens: make, go, have, wait · To what, where: fake 999 call, address
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 (Teenagers, ambulance, real patient), 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 | Teenagers | teenager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Glasgow | case |
| 3 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Teenagers | nmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 call | det |
| 6 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 call | amod |
| 7 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 call | compound |
| 8 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 prank | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 prank | det |
| 11 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ambulance | det |
| 14 | ambulance | ambulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 address | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 address | det |
| 18 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 had | mark |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 patient | det |
| 21 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 patient | amod |
| 22 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 had | nsubj |
| 23 | across | across | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 patient | nmod |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 wait | mark |
| 27 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 had | xcomp |
| 28 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 wait | advmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 help | case |
| 30 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wait | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Teenagers in Glasgow | a fake 999 call | as a prank | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset call=Product | |||
| 2 | go | past | a ambulance | the address | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to address=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a real patient across town | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wait | to-infinitive | a real patient across town not said here | for help; long property | vn exist-47.1 «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:28.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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