Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 26

Lads in Sydney filmed themselves «pranking» a shop worker by pretending to steal and running; they posted it, the worker was shaking, and when their mums saw it they had to go back and apologise in person.

Who acts: Lads, worker, mums · What happens: film, prank, pretend, steal, run, post · To what, where: Lads, shop worker, worker · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Lads, worker, mums), 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	Lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 filmed	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Sydney	case
3	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Lads	nmod
4	filmed	film	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 filmed	obj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 pranking	punct
7	pranking	prank	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 filmed	xcomp
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 pranking	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 worker	det
10	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worker	compound
11	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pranking	obj
12	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 pretending	mark
13	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 pranking	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 steal	mark
15	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pretending	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 running	cc
17	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 steal	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 posted	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 posted	nsubj
20	posted	post	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 filmed	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 posted	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shaking	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 worker	det
24	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shaking	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shaking	aux
26	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 posted	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 saw	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 saw	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 saw	advmod
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mums	nmod:poss
31	mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 saw	nsubj
32	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shaking	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 saw	obj
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 saw	ccomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 go	mark
37	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 had	xcomp
38	back	back	ADV	_	37 go	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 apologise	cc
40	apologise	apologise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 go	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 person	case
42	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 apologise	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 filmed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	film	past	Lads in Sydney	Lads = lad		tree rules
2	prank in a quote	gerund	Lads in Sydney not said here	a shop worker		tree rules
3	pretend	gerund	Lads in Sydney not said here			tree rules
4	steal	to-infinitive	Lads in Sydney not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	run	gerund	Lads in Sydney not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	post	past	Lads = lad	worker		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	shake	past · progressive	the worker			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
8	see	past	Lads's mums	worker		tree rules
9	have	past	Lads = lad			tree rules
10	go back	to-infinitive	Lads = lad not said here			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
11	apologise speech: apologize	infinitive	Lads = lad not said here		in person	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:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:26.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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