Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 15
Jake saw a chair-pulling prank in a funny video and pulled the chair away as his mate sat down; his mate hit his head on the floor and had to go to hospital for a check.
Who acts: Jake, mate · What happens: see, pull, pull away, sit down, hit, have · To what, where: pulling prank, funny video, chair, head, hospital
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 (Jake, mate), 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 | Jake | Jake | 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 | 7 prank | det |
| 4 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulling | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 chair | punct |
| 6 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 prank | amod |
| 7 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 video | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 video | det |
| 10 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 video | amod |
| 11 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pulled | cc |
| 13 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chair | det |
| 15 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulled | obj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 pulled | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 sat | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mate | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | nsubj |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pulled | advcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 sat | compound:prt |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 hit | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mate | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hit | nsubj |
| 25 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sat | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hit | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 floor | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 floor | det |
| 30 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hit | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 had | cc |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 hit | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 go | mark |
| 34 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 had | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 hospital | case |
| 36 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | obl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 check | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 check | det |
| 39 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 go | obl |
| 40 | . | . | 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 | Jake | a pulling prank | a funny video | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prank=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pull | gerund | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | pull away | past | Jake not said here | the chair | away property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sit down | past | Jake's mate | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hit | past | Jake's mate | Jake's head | on the floor | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument on floor=Patient | |||
| 6 | have | past | Jake's mate not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | Jake's mate not said here | hospital | for a check | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial_Location |
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:15.
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): R7-rel-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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