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title: For someone with a real fear, like of spiders or snakes, a fake one… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics
description: For someone with a real fear, like of spiders or snakes, a fake one can cause panic rather than fun. Who acts: fake one. 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.
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# Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 20

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For someone with a real fear, like of spiders or snakes, a fake one can cause panic rather than fun.

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**Who acts:** fake one · **What happens:** cause · **To what, where:** panic

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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 (fake one), 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:20
# text = For someone with a real fear, like of spiders or snakes, a fake one can cause panic rather than fun.
# 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	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	panic	panic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	22	cc	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | can | a fake one | panic rather fun |  |  |  | for someone | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition panic=Patient |

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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.

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**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:20`.

**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/).

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