--- title: Never pull a chair away as someone sits; they can fall and badly hur… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics description: Never pull a chair away as someone sits; they can fall and badly hurt their back or head. Who acts: you, someone, feelings. A sentence of the lesson «Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/) / 16 # Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 16 Never pull a chair away as someone sits; they can fall and badly hurt their back or head. **Who acts:** you, someone, feelings · **What happens:** not pull away, sit, fall, hurt · **To what, where:** chair, back This is a sentence of the lesson «Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?» 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 (you, someone, feelings), 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:16 # text = Never pull a chair away as someone sits; they can fall and badly hurt their back or head. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 pull pull VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **pull away** | imperative | you *not said here* | a chair | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sit** | present | someone | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fall** | can | feelings *= feeling* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hurt** | infinitive | feelings *= feeling* *not said here* | feelings's back or head | | | | badly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Patient | 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:16`. **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, 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: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/15/) - next →: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/)