Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 15
Never pretend to be hurt, missing or in danger as a joke; it causes real fear and can waste emergency services' time.
Who acts: you, joke · What happens: not pretend, hurt, cause, waste · To what, where: real fear
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 (you, joke), 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 pretend | advmod |
| 2 | pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hurt | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hurt | aux:pass |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pretend | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 missing | punct |
| 7 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hurt | conj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 danger | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 danger | case |
| 10 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 joke | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 joke | det |
| 13 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 danger | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 causes | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 causes | nsubj |
| 16 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 pretend | parataxis |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fear | amod |
| 18 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 causes | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 waste | cc |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 waste | aux |
| 21 | waste | waste | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 causes | conj |
| 22 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 services | compound |
| 23 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 time | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 23 services | case |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 waste | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pretend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pretend | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hurt | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | cause | present | joke | real fear | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fear=Patient | ||||
| 4 | waste | can | joke not said here | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:15.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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