Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 29
Pulling chairs, tripping and pushing people into water are "pranks" that cause broken bones and head injuries.
Who acts: Pulling, pranks · What happens: pull, trip, push, be, cause · To what, where: chairs, people, water, pranks, broken bones
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 (Pulling, 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 | Pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 pranks | csubj |
| 2 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pulling | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tripping | punct |
| 4 | tripping | trip | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Pulling | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pushing | cc |
| 6 | pushing | push | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Pulling | conj |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pushing | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pushing | obl |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pranks | cop |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pranks | punct |
| 12 | pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pranks | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 cause | nsubj |
| 15 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pranks | acl:relcl |
| 16 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bones | amod |
| 17 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cause | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 injuries | cc |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 injuries | compound |
| 20 | injuries | injury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bones | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pranks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | gerund | chairs | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme | |||||
| 2 | trip | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | push | gerund | people | water | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme into water=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Pulling | pranks | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cause | present | pranks | broken bones and head injuries | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bone=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:29.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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