Funny pranks, sentence 4
A prank is a trick played for fun, and a good one has three marks: nobody is hurt, nothing is broken, and everyone laughs at the end — including the one who was pranked.
Who acts: prank, good one, everyone · What happens: be, play, have, hurt, break, laugh · To what, where: trick, three marks, nobody, nothing, end, one
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 (prank, good one, everyone), 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 | 5 trick | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trick | det |
| 5 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 trick | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 fun | case |
| 8 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 played | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 has | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | conj |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 marks | nummod |
| 16 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 has | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurt | punct |
| 18 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hurt | aux:pass |
| 20 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 has | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 broken | punct |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 broken | aux:pass |
| 24 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 hurt | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 laughs | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 laughs | cc |
| 27 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 laughs | nsubj |
| 28 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 hurt | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 end | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 end | det |
| 31 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laughs | obl |
| 32 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 one | punct |
| 33 | including | include | ADP | _ | 35 one | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 laughs | obl |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 pranked | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 pranked | aux:pass |
| 38 | pranked | prank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 one | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a prank | a trick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | participle | a trick not said here | for fun | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for fun=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | present | a good one | three marks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hurt | present · passive | nobody | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | break | present · passive | nothing | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | laugh | present | everyone | at the end | include the one | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | prank | past · passive | the one | 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:438-funny-pranks.lesson:4.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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