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title: Never prank animals; they do not understand jokes and get frightened… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Never prank animals; they do not understand jokes and get frightened, stressed or hurt. Who acts: animals. 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 every clause.
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# Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 19

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Never prank animals; they do not understand jokes and get frightened, stressed or hurt.

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**Who acts:** animals · **What happens:** not understand, get, frighten, stress, hurt · **To what, where:** jokes

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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 (animals), 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:19
# text = Never prank animals; they do not understand jokes and get frightened, stressed or hurt.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
2	prank	prank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
9	jokes	joke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stressed	stress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:xcomp
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | animals *= animal* | jokes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **frighten** | participle | animals *= animal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **stress** | participle | animals *= animal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **hurt** | participle | animals *= animal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:19`.

**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, 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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