Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 23
A boy in Canada joked online that he would bring a gun to school; the police came to his home, the school was locked down, and he was suspended even though he never meant it.
Who acts: boy, police · What happens: joke, bring, come, lock down, suspend, not mean · To what, where: gun, school, home, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that 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 (boy, police), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joked | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Canada | case |
| 4 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | joked | joke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | online | online | ADV | _ | 5 joked | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 bring | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | aux |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 joked | ccomp |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 gun | det |
| 12 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 school | case |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 police | det |
| 17 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 joked | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 home | nmod:poss |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 locked | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 school | det |
| 24 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 locked | aux:pass |
| 26 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 came | conj |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 locked | compound:prt |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 suspended | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 suspended | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 suspended | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 suspended | aux:pass |
| 32 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 locked | conj |
| 33 | even | even | ADV | _ | 37 meant | advmod |
| 34 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 37 meant | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 meant | nsubj |
| 36 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 meant | advmod |
| 37 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 suspended | advcl |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 meant | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 joked | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | past | a boy in Canada | online property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | would | boy | a gun | school | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gun=Theme to school=Destination | |||
| 3 | come | past | the police | boy's home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | lock down | past · passive | the school | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | suspend | past · passive | boy | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not mean | past | boy | gun | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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