Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 26
Pranks that startle someone who is driving, cooking or on stairs can cause real accidents.
Who acts: Pranks · What happens: startle, drive, cook, cause · To what, where: someone, real accidents
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 (Pranks), 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 | Pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 startle | nsubj |
| 3 | startle | startle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pranks | acl:relcl |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 startle | obj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 driving | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 driving | aux |
| 7 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 someone | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cooking | punct |
| 9 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 driving | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 stairs | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 stairs | case |
| 12 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cooking | conj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cause | aux |
| 14 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 accidents | amod |
| 16 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cause | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | startle | present | Pranks | someone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | drive | present · progressive | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | cook | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | cause | can | Pranks | real accidents | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition accident=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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:26.
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): 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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