Funny pranks, sentence 28
A pranked person needs to be told «only joking» before the trick causes harm.
Who acts: pranked person, trick · What happens: prank, need, tell, joke, cause · To what, where: harm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pranked person, trick), 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 | 3 person | det |
| 2 | pranked | prank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 needs | xcomp |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 joking | punct |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 joking | advmod |
| 10 | joking | joke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 told | ccomp |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 joking | punct |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 causes | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trick | det |
| 14 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 causes | nsubj |
| 15 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | advcl |
| 16 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 causes | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prank | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | need | present | a pranked person | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | a pranked person not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | joke speech: other in a quote | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | cause | present | the trick | harm | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=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:28.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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