--- title: Some pranks are never okay: pulling a chair away as someone sits (th… — Pranks: harmless fun or real harm? · tree and pragmatics description: Some pranks are never okay: pulling a chair away as someone sits (they can hurt their back or head), tricking someone about food they are allergic to (allergies can kill), pranking animals, damaging property, prank phone calls, and ringing doorbells and running away. 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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 (pranks, someone, people, allergies), 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:8 # text = Some pranks are never okay: pulling a chair away as someone sits (they can hurt their back or head), tricking someone about food they are allergic to (allergies can kill), pranking animals, damaging property, prank phone calls, and ringing doorbells and running away. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 pranks prank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 okay okay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 pulling pull VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 nsubj _ _ 13 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 tricking trick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 25 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 24 obj _ _ 26 about about ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 allergic allergic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 30 obl _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 33 allergies allergy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 pranking prank VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj 39 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 41 damaging damaging VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 conj _ _ 42 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 45 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 calls call NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 ringing ring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 conj _ _ 50 doorbells doorbell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obj _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 49 conj _ _ 53 away away ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 54 . . 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 | **not** **is** | present | some pranks | | | | | okay *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pull away** | gerund | some pranks *not said here* | a chair | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **sit** | present | someone | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hurt** | can | people | people's back or head | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Patient | | 5 | **trick** | gerund | some pranks *not said here* | someone | | | | about food | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | people | food *not said here* | | | | allergic *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **kill** | can | allergies | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **prank** | gerund | some pranks *not said here* | animals | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **damaging** | gerund | some pranks *not said here* | property and prank phone calls | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **ring** | gerund | some pranks *not said here* | doorbells | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doorbell=Theme | | 11 | **run away** | gerund | some pranks *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:8`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. **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?, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/7/) - next →: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/)