Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 23
Pulling chairs away, tripping people and pushing them as a joke often end in head or back injuries.
Who acts: Pulling · What happens: pull away, trip, push, end · To what, where: chairs, people, head
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 (Pulling), 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 | Pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 end | csubj |
| 2 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pulling | obj |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Pulling | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tripping | punct |
| 5 | tripping | trip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Pulling | conj |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tripping | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pushing | cc |
| 8 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Pulling | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pushing | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 joke | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 joke | det |
| 12 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pushing | obl |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 end | advmod |
| 14 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 injuries | cc |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 head | conj |
| 19 | injuries | injury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 head | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 end | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull away | gerund | chairs | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trip | gerund | people | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Agent | |||||
| 3 | push | gerund | people | as a joke | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | end | present | Pulling | head and back or injuries | often property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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