Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 40
Prank calls and fake-crime pranks frighten real people who don't know it's a joke.
Who acts: Prank calls, real people, target · What happens: frighten, not know, be · To what, where: real people, joke · 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 (Prank calls, real people, target), 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 | Prank | prank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 calls | compound |
| 2 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 frighten | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pranks | cc |
| 4 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crime | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 fake | punct |
| 6 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pranks | compound |
| 7 | pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 calls | conj |
| 8 | frighten | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 frighten | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 people | acl:relcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 joke | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 joke | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 joke | det |
| 18 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 know | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 frighten | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | present | Prank calls and crime pranks | real people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | real people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | target | a joke | 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:40.
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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