--- title: A boy in Canada joked online that he would bring a gun to school; th… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Canada joked online that he would bring a gun to school; the police came to his home, the school was locked down, and he was suspended even though he never meant it. Who acts: boy, police. 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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 (boy, police), 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:23 # text = A boy in Canada joked online that he would bring a gun to school; the police came to his home, the school was locked down, and he was suspended even though he never meant it. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Canada Canada PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 joked joke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 online online ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 police police NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 locked lock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 27 down down ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 suspended suspend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 conj _ _ 33 even even ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 34 though though SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 . . 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 | **joke** *speech: other* | past | a boy in Canada | | | | | online *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bring** | would | boy | a gun | | school | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gun=Theme to school=Destination | | 3 | **come** | past | the police | | | boy's home | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **lock down** | past · passive | | the school | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **suspend** | past · passive | | boy | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **not** **mean** | past | boy | gun | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play.lesson:23`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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