Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 8

Some pranks are never okay: pulling a chair away as someone sits (they can hurt their back or head), tricking someone about food they are allergic to (allergies can kill), pranking animals, damaging property, prank phone calls, and ringing doorbells and running away.

Who acts: pranks, someone, people, allergies · What happens: not be, pull away, sit, hurt, trick, be · To what, where: chair, back, someone, food, animals, property

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 (pranks, someone, people, allergies), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 pranks	det
2	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 okay	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 okay	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 okay	advmod
5	okay	okay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 pulling	punct
7	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 okay	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chair	det
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pulling	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 pulling	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 sits	mark
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 sits	nsubj
13	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 pulling	advcl
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 hurt	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 hurt	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hurt	aux
17	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pulling	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 back	nmod:poss
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hurt	obj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 head	cc
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 back	conj
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 hurt	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tricking	punct
24	tricking	trick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 pulling	conj
25	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 tricking	obj
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 food	case
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tricking	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 allergic	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 allergic	cop
30	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 food	acl:relcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	30 allergic	obl
32	(	(	PUNCT	_	35 kill	punct
33	allergies	allergy	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 kill	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 kill	aux
35	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 okay	conj
36	)	)	PUNCT	_	35 kill	punct
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 pranking	punct
38	pranking	prank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 pulling	conj
39	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 pranking	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 damaging	punct
41	damaging	damaging	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 pranking	conj
42	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 damaging	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 calls	punct
44	prank	prank	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 calls	compound
45	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 calls	compound
46	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 property	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 ringing	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 ringing	cc
49	ringing	ring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 pranking	conj
50	doorbells	doorbell	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 ringing	obj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 running	cc
52	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 ringing	conj
53	away	away	ADV	_	52 running	advmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 okay	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	some pranks		okay property	tree rules
2	pull away	gerund	some pranks not said here	a chair	away property	tree rules
3	sit	present	someone			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hurt	can	people	people's back or head		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Patient
5	trick	gerund	some pranks not said here	someone	about food	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient
6	is	present	people	food not said here	allergic property	tree rules
7	kill	can	allergies			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	prank	gerund	some pranks not said here	animals		tree rules
9	damaging	gerund	some pranks not said here	property and prank phone calls		tree rules
10	ring	gerund	some pranks not said here	doorbells		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doorbell=Theme
11	run away	gerund	some pranks not said here		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:8.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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