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title: When a prank goes wrong and someone is upset, stop, say sorry and he… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics
description: When a prank goes wrong and someone is upset, stop, say sorry and help. Who acts: prank, someone, 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.
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# Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 25

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When a prank goes wrong and someone is upset, stop, say sorry and help.

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**Who acts:** prank, someone, you · **What happens:** go, be, stop, say, help · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (prank, someone, 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:25
# text = When a prank goes wrong and someone is upset, stop, say sorry and help.
# 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	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
14	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **go** | present | a prank |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | someone |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **help** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:25`.

**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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