Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 7
A prank stops being funny when someone pays for it: damaged property, a frightened pet, a scared neighbour, or a friend who cannot go home.
Who acts: prank, someone, friend · What happens: stop, be, pay, damage, not go · To what, where: damaged property
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 (prank, someone, friend), 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 prank | det |
| 2 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stops | nsubj |
| 3 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 funny | cop |
| 5 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stops | xcomp |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 pays | mark |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 pays | nsubj |
| 8 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stops | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pays | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 property | punct |
| 12 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 property | amod |
| 13 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pays | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pet | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pet | det |
| 16 | frightened | frighten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pet | amod |
| 17 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 property | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 neighbour | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 neighbour | det |
| 20 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 neighbour | amod |
| 21 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 property | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 friend | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 friend | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 friend | det |
| 25 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 property | conj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 go | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 go | advmod |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 friend | acl:relcl |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 go | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | a prank | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | a prank not said here | funny property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay | present | someone | damaged property and a frightened pet and a scared neighbour or a friend | for prank | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | |||
| 4 | damage | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not go | can | a friend | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.lesson:7.
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): 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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