Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 2
A prank stops being funny when it damages things, frightens animals, or makes people believe someone is hurt or in danger.
Who acts: prank, people · What happens: stop, be, damage, frighten, make, believe · To what, where: things, animals, people, someone · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prank, people), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 damages | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 damages | nsubj |
| 8 | damages | damage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 funny | advcl |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 damages | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 frightens | punct |
| 11 | frightens | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 damages | conj |
| 12 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 frightens | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 makes | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 makes | cc |
| 15 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 damages | conj |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 makes | obj |
| 17 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 makes | xcomp |
| 18 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 hurt | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hurt | aux:pass |
| 20 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 believe | ccomp |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 danger | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 danger | case |
| 23 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hurt | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | damage | present | prank | things | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument thing=Patient | ||||
| 4 | frighten | present | prank not said here | animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | make | present | prank not said here | people | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | believe | infinitive | people not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | hurt | present · passive | someone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:2.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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