Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 35
Putting anything into someone's food or drink without them knowing is not a joke; it could make them ill.
Who acts: falls, Putting, video · What happens: put, know, not be, make · To what, where: anything, food, joke, falls · 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 (falls, Putting, video), 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 | Putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 joke | csubj |
| 2 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Putting | obj |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 food | case |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 food | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 someone | case |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Putting | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 drink | cc |
| 8 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 food | conj |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 knowing | mark |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knowing | nsubj |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Putting | advcl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 joke | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 joke | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 joke | det |
| 15 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 joke | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 make | aux |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 joke | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 make | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 joke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | gerund | anything | someone's food or drink | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent anything=Goal | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | falls | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not be speech: other | present | Putting | a joke | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | could | video | falls | ill property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product |
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:35.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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