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title: Ringing doorbells and running away can frighten people, and running… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Ringing doorbells and running away can frighten people, and running near roads is dangerous. Who acts: Ringing, running. 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 
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# Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 20

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Ringing doorbells and running away can frighten people, and running near roads is dangerous.

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**Who acts:** Ringing, running · **What happens:** ring, run away, frighten, run, be · **To what, where:** doorbells, people, roads

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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 (Ringing, running), 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:20
# text = Ringing doorbells and running away can frighten people, and running near roads is dangerous.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ringing	ring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj
2	doorbells	doorbell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **ring** | gerund |  | doorbells |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doorbell=Theme |
| 2 | **run away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **frighten** | can | Ringing | people |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
| 4 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  | roads |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near road=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | present | running |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | 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:20`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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