April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 28
Pretend emergencies cause real fear, and a frightened adult can take dangerous risks such as driving too fast.
Who acts: Pretend emergencies, frightened adult, dangerous risks · What happens: cause, take, drive · To what, where: real fear, dangerous risks
This is a sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work» 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 (Pretend emergencies, frightened adult, dangerous risks), 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 | Pretend | pretend | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 emergencies | amod |
| 2 | emergencies | emergency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cause | nsubj |
| 3 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fear | amod |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cause | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 adult | det |
| 9 | frightened | frighten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 adult | amod |
| 10 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cause | conj |
| 13 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 risks | amod |
| 14 | risks | risk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 driving | mark |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 such | fixed |
| 17 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 risks | acl |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 fast | advmod |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 17 driving | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | Pretend emergencies | real fear | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | can | a frightened adult | dangerous risks | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive | gerund | dangerous risks not said here | fast property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks.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): 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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