--- title: A boy in Florida pulled a chair away as his friend sat down; the fri… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Florida pulled a chair away as his friend sat down; the friend hit his head on the floor, was knocked out for a moment and had to go to hospital. Who acts: boy, friend. 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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 (boy, friend), 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:27 # text = A boy in Florida pulled a chair away as his friend sat down; the friend hit his head on the floor, was knocked out for a moment and had to go to hospital. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Florida Florida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obj 8 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 13 down down ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 knocked knock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 . . 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 | **pull away** | past | a boy in Florida | a chair | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sit down** | past | boy's friend | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hit** | past | the friend | boy's head | | | | on the floor | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument on floor=Patient | | 4 | **knock out** | past · passive | the friend *not said here* | | | | moment | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» | | 5 | **have** | past | a boy in Florida *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | a boy in Florida *not said here* | | | hospital | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial\_Location | 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:27`. **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): R5-strong ×2. **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?, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/26/) - next →: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/)