--- title: A prank stops being funny when someone pays for it: damaged property… — Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pranks that harm · tree and pragmatics description: A prank stops being funny when someone pays for it: damaged property, a frightened pet, a scared neighbour, or a friend who cannot go home. Who acts: prank, someone, friend. 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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 (prank, someone, friend), 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:7 # text = A prank stops being funny when someone pays for it: damaged property, a frightened pet, a scared neighbour, or a friend who cannot go home. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 cop _ _ 5 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nsubj _ _ 8 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 damaged damage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 frightened frighten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl:relcl _ _ 30 home home ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | present | a prank | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | gerund | a prank *not said here* | | | | | funny *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pay** | present | someone | damaged property and a frightened pet and a scared neighbour or a friend | | | | for prank | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | | 4 | **damage** | participle | | | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **go** | can | a friend | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:7`. **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): 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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