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title: Threats about weapons or bombs are always taken seriously by schools… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Threats about weapons or bombs are always taken seriously by schools and police, even when the child says it was a joke. Who acts: schools, child. 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 an
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# Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm, sentence 25

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Threats about weapons or bombs are always taken seriously by schools and police, even when the child says it was a joke.

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**Who acts:** schools, child · **What happens:** take, say, be · **To what, where:** Threats, joke · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (schools, child), 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:25
# text = Threats about weapons or bombs are always taken seriously by schools and police, even when the child says it was a joke.
# 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
1	Threats	threat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bombs	bomb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	police	police	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **take** | present · passive | schools and police | Threats about weapons or bombs |  |  |  | always, seriously *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the child |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | child | a joke |  |  |  |  | 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:25`.

**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. **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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