Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 41
Some old fool's-errand jokes, like «tartan paint», are a harmless tradition when the person laughs in the end.
Who acts: old fool's errand jokes, person · What happens: be, laugh · To what, where: harmless tradition
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 (old fool's errand jokes, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 jokes | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jokes | amod |
| 3 | fool's | fool' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 jokes | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fool's | punct |
| 5 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jokes | compound |
| 6 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tradition | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 jokes | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 paint | case |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 paint | punct |
| 10 | tartan | tartan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 paint | compound |
| 11 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jokes | nmod |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 paint | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 jokes | punct |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tradition | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tradition | det |
| 16 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tradition | amod |
| 17 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 laughs | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 person | det |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 laughs | nsubj |
| 21 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tradition | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 laughs | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 tradition | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | some old fool's errand jokes like tartan paint | a harmless tradition | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | the person | in the end | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in end=Theme |
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:41.
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): 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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