Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 39
«It's just a prank» does not make it okay if the person is scared or humiliated.
Who acts: target, person · What happens: be, not make, humiliate · To what, where: prank, target
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 (target, person), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 prank | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 prank | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 prank | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 prank | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 prank | det |
| 6 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | advcl |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 prank | punct |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 make | advmod |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | xcomp |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 scared | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scared | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 scared | cop |
| 17 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | advcl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 humiliated | cc |
| 19 | humiliated | humiliate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 scared | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | target | a prank | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not make | present · do-support | target | okay property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the person | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | humiliate | participle | the person not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:39.
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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