Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 24
If it is always the same target, it is not a joke — watch for fake laughs.
Who acts: prank · What happens: be, not be, watch · To what, where: same target, joke
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 (prank), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 target | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 target | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 target | cop |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 target | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 target | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 target | amod |
| 7 | target | target | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joke | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 target | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 joke | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 joke | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 joke | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 joke | det |
| 13 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | — | — | PUNCT | _ | 15 watch | mark |
| 15 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 joke | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 laughs | case |
| 17 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 laughs | amod |
| 18 | laughs | laugh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 watch | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 joke | 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 a condition, not said to happen | present | prank | the same target | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not is a | present | prank | a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | for fake laughs | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for laugh=Theme |
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:24.
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): no change. 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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