Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 37
Pranks that trick someone into sharing feelings and then laugh at them are deeply cruel.
Who acts: Pranks · What happens: trick, share, laugh, be · To what, where: someone, feelings
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 (Pranks), 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 | Pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 cruel | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 trick | nsubj |
| 3 | trick | trick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pranks | acl:relcl |
| 4 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 trick | obj |
| 5 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 6 sharing | mark |
| 6 | sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 trick | advcl |
| 7 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sharing | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laugh | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 laugh | advmod |
| 10 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 trick | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laugh | obl |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cruel | cop |
| 14 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 15 cruel | advmod |
| 15 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cruel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | present | Pranks | someone | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | share | gerund | Pranks not said here | feelings | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | laugh | infinitive | Pranks not said here | then | at feelings = feeling | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | is | present | Pranks | cruel, deeply property | 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:37.
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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