Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 4
That's cruelty.» A prank is cruel when only one person gets hurt and everyone else laughs.
Who acts: That, prank, everyone · What happens: be, hurt, laugh · To what, where: cruelty, one person · 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 (That, prank, everyone), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 cruelty | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cruelty | cop |
| 3 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cruel | parataxis |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cruelty | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 cruelty | punct |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 prank | det |
| 7 | prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cruel | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cruel | cop |
| 9 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 hurt | advmod |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 one | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 person | nummod |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hurt | aux:pass |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cruel | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laughs | cc |
| 17 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 laughs | nsubj |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 everyone | advmod |
| 19 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hurt | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cruel | 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 | is a | present | That | cruelty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | a prank | cruel property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurt in a quote | present · passive | one person | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | laugh in a quote | present | everyone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:4.
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 ×2, R7-rel-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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