Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 10
The class tried them on ten real pranks, and half failed.
Who acts: class, half · What happens: try, fail · To what, where: tests, ten real pranks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cruel pranks and where the line is» 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 (class, half), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 class | det |
| 2 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 pranks | case |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pranks | nummod |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pranks | amod |
| 8 | pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 failed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 failed | cc |
| 11 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 failed | nsubj |
| 12 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the class | tests = test | ten real pranks | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | fail | past | half | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: 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:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:10.
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.
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