Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 1

A prank that damages things, like egging a house or stuffing a toilet, means someone has to clean or pay for it, and it can be a crime.

Who acts: prank, things, someone · What happens: damage, egg, stuff, mean, have, clean · To what, where: things, house, toilet, crime · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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, things, someone), 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	16 means	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 damages	nsubj
4	damages	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 prank	acl:relcl
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 damages	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 egging	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 egging	mark
8	egging	egg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 things	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 egging	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 stuffing	cc
12	stuffing	stuff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 egging	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 toilet	det
14	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stuffing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 prank	punct
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 means	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 clean	mark
20	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 has	xcomp
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 pay	cc
22	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 clean	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pay	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 crime	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 crime	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 crime	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 crime	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 crime	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 crime	det
31	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 means	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	damage	present	a prank	things		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	egg	gerund	things not said here	a house		tree rules
3	stuff	gerund	things not said here	a toilet		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toilet=Theme
4	mean	present	a prank			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	present	someone			tree rules
6	clean	to-infinitive	someone not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	pay	infinitive	someone not said here		for prank	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
8	is a	can	prank	a crime		tree rules

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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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