Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 19
Tricking someone smaller into doing something gross or risky is using their trust.
Who acts: Tricking, toys · What happens: trick, do, use, trust · To what, where: someone, something, trust
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 (Tricking, toys), 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 | Tricking | trick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 using | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Tricking | obj |
| 3 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 someone | amod |
| 4 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 5 doing | mark |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Tricking | advcl |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 doing | obj |
| 7 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 something | amod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 risky | cc |
| 9 | risky | risky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gross | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 using | aux |
| 11 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 trust | nmod:poss |
| 13 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 using | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 using | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | gerund | someone | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | |||||
| 2 | do | gerund | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | use | present · progressive | Tricking | toys's trust | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Patient | ||||
| 4 | trust | toys = toy | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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:19.
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 ×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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