--- title: A harmless prank is one where everyone laughs, including the person… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics description: A harmless prank is one where everyone laughs, including the person pranked, and nobody is harmed. Who acts: harmless prank, everyone. 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 cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/17/) [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/) / 17 # Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 17 A harmless prank is one where everyone laughs, including the person pranked, and nobody is harmed. **Who acts:** harmless prank, everyone · **What happens:** be, laugh, prank, harm · **To what, where:** one, person, nobody 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 (harmless prank, everyone), 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:17 # text = A harmless prank is one where everyone laughs, including the person pranked, and nobody is harmed. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 harmless harmless 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 everyone everyone 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 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 including include ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 pranked prank VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 harmed harm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 19 . . 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 harmless prank | one | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **laugh** | present | everyone | | | | | include the person | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **prank** | participle | | the person *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **harm** | present · passive | | nobody | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | 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:17`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/16/) - next →: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/)