--- title: A good prank is one where everybody laughs afterwards, including the… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics description: A good prank is one where everybody laughs afterwards, including the person pranked, and nobody is hurt, frightened for real, embarrassed in front of many people or left with a mess. Who acts: good prank, everybody. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good prank, everybody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:204-pranks.lesson:0 # text = A good prank is one where everybody laughs afterwards, including the person pranked, and nobody is hurt, frightened for real, embarrassed in front of many people or left with a mess. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 204-pranks.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 8 advmod _ _ 7 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 8 nsubj _ _ 8 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 11 including include VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 pranked prank VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl 22 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 embarrassed embarrass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 mess mess NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | a good prank | one | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **laugh** | present | everybody | | | | | afterwards *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **include** | gerund | | the person | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 4 | **prank** | participle | everybody *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hurt** | present · passive | | nobody | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **frighten** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **embarrass** | participle | | | | front of many people | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **leave** | participle | | | | | | with a mess | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mess=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:204-pranks.lesson:0`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Jokes and teasing: when is it still fu…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/203-jokes-and-teasing/27/) - next →: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/)