--- title: Pulling chairs, tripping and pushing people into water are "pranks"… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics description: Pulling chairs, tripping and pushing people into water are "pranks" that cause broken bones and head injuries. Who acts: Pulling, pranks. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/29/) [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/) / 29 # Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, sentence 29 Pulling chairs, tripping and pushing people into water are "pranks" that cause broken bones and head injuries. **Who acts:** Pulling, pranks · **What happens:** pull, trip, push, be, cause · **To what, where:** chairs, people, water, pranks, broken bones 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 (Pulling, pranks), 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:29 # text = Pulling chairs, tripping and pushing people into water are "pranks" that cause broken bones and head injuries. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Pulling pull VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 2 chairs chair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 tripping trip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 pushing push VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 pranks prank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 cause cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 injuries injury NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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** | gerund | | chairs | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme | | 2 | **trip** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **push** | gerund | | people | | water | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent people=Theme into water=Destination | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Pulling | pranks | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cause** | present | pranks | broken bones and head injuries | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bone=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:29`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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?, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/28/) - next →: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/)