Funny pranks, sentence 12
Theo saw a cling-film-on-the-toilet prank online and tried it; it went everywhere, and Mum made him clean the whole bathroom.
Who acts: Theo, cup, Mum, prank · What happens: see, try, go, make, clean · To what, where: film toilet prank, cup, prank, whole bathroom
This is a sentence of the lesson «Funny pranks» 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 (Theo, cup, Mum, prank), 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 | Theo | Theo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prank | det |
| 4 | cling | cling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 film | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 cling | punct |
| 6 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prank | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 prank | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 prank | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 on | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 toilet | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 the | punct |
| 12 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prank | compound |
| 13 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 14 | online | online | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tried | cc |
| 16 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tried | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 21 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 24 | Mum | Mum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | obj |
| 27 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 bathroom | det |
| 29 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bathroom | amod |
| 30 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 clean | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Theo | a film toilet prank | online property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prank=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | try | past | Theo not said here | cup | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go | past | cup | everywhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Mum | prank | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | clean | infinitive | prank not said here | the whole bathroom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bathroom=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:438-funny-pranks.lesson:12.
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 ×5, R7-rel-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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