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title: Never damage property in a prank; someone has to clean or pay for it… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Never damage property in a prank; someone has to clean or pay for it, and it can be a crime. Who acts: you, someone, prank. A sentence of the lesson «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 18

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Never damage property in a prank; someone has to clean or pay for it, and it can be a crime.

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**Who acts:** you, someone, prank · **What happens:** not damage, have, clean, pay, be · **To what, where:** property, prank, crime

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that 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 (you, someone, prank), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.lesson:18
# text = Never damage property in a prank; someone has to clean or pay for it, and it can be a crime.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.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
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
3	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 | **not** **damage** | imperative | you *not said here* | property |  | a prank |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | someone |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **clean** | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **pay** | infinitive | someone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for prank | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | can | prank | a crime |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.lesson:18`.

**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. **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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