--- title: Before any prank, ask: Could anyone get hurt? — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics description: Before any prank, ask: Could anyone get hurt? Who acts: you. 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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 2 Before any prank, ask: Could anyone get hurt? **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ask, hurt · **To what, where:** anyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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), 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:2 # text = Before any prank, ask: Could anyone get hurt? # 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 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 Could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 8 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nsubj _ _ 9 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ _ 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | before any prank | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hurt** | could · passive | | anyone | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:2`. **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?, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/1/) - next →: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/)