--- title: But some words are never jokes: bombs, weapons and threats at airpor… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics description: But some words are never jokes: bombs, weapons and threats at airports or schools must be treated seriously by staff, and can cause alarm, searches and serious trouble. Who acts: words, staff. 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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 (words, staff), 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:4 # text = But some words are never jokes: bombs, weapons and threats at airports or schools must be treated seriously by staff, and can cause alarm, searches and serious trouble. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 bombs bomb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 weapons weapon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 threats threat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 airports airport NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 treated treat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 20 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:agent _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 27 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 searches search NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=29:conj 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | some words | jokes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **treat** | must · passive | staff | bombs at airports or schools and weapons and threats | | | | seriously *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | | 3 | **cause** | can | staff *not said here* | alarm and searches and serious trouble | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition alarm=Patient | 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:4`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. 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