--- title: Example: a girl in Auckland hides a rubber snake in her brother's dr… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics description: Example: a girl in Auckland hides a rubber snake in her brother's drawer, and he screams and cries, because he is truly scared of snakes. Who acts: girl, snake. 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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 (girl, snake), 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:11 # text = Example: a girl in Auckland hides a rubber snake in her brother's drawer, and he screams and cries, because he is truly scared of snakes. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:dep 2 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Auckland Auckland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 drawer drawer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 screams scream VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 truly truly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | present | a girl in Auckland | a rubber snake | | girl's brother's drawer | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent snake=Patient in drawer=Location | | 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | snake | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | snake *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | snake | | | | | of snakes; scared, truly *property* | 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](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:11`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/10/) - next →: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/)