--- title: A sudden fright can make people fall or feel unwell, so never scare… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics description: A sudden fright can make people fall or feel unwell, so never scare people near stairs or roads, or people who are frail or have a heart condition. Who acts: sudden fright, people. 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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 (sudden fright, people), 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:19 # text = A sudden fright can make people fall or feel unwell, so never scare people near stairs or roads, or people who are frail or have a heart condition. # 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 10 unwell unwell ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 scare scare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 near near ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 roads road NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 frail frail ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 . . 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 | **make** | can | a sudden fright | people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **feel** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | unwell *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **scare** | infinitive | | people | | stairs or roads or people | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | people | | | | | frail *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **have** | present | people *not said here* | a heart condition | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=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:19`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/18/) - next →: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/)