Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 28
Emma was dared to prank-call a random number; a grandma answered, frightened it was bad news about her grandson.
Who acts: grandma, number · What happens: dare, prank, call, answer, frighten, be · To what, where: Emma, random number, bad news · 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 (grandma, number), 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 | Emma | Emma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dared | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dared | aux:pass |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 call | mark |
| 5 | prank | prank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 9 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 number | amod |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 grandma | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 grandma | det |
| 13 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dared | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 frightened | punct |
| 16 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 news | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 news | cop |
| 19 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 news | amod |
| 20 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 frightened | ccomp |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 grandson | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 23 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 news | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | past · passive | Emma | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | prank | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | call | to-infinitive | a random number | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | a grandma | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | frighten | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | is a | past | number | bad news | about grandma's grandson | 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:28.
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, R8-pos-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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