Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 12
Never prank animals; they do not understand jokes and get frightened, stressed or hurt.
Who acts: animals · What happens: not understand, get, frighten, stress, hurt · To what, where: jokes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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 (animals), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 prank | advmod |
| 2 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 animals | compound |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 understand | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 understand | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 understand | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 understand | advmod |
| 8 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 animals | parataxis |
| 9 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 understand | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 understand | conj |
| 12 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 get | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stressed | punct |
| 14 | stressed | stress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 frightened | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 hurt | cc |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stressed | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prank | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not understand | present · do-support | animals = animal | jokes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | animals = animal not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | frighten | participle | animals = animal not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | stress | participle | animals = animal not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | hurt | participle | animals = animal not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:12.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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