--- title: A prank stops being funny when it damages things, frightens animals,… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusi… · tree and pragmatics description: A prank stops being funny when it damages things, frightens animals, or makes people believe someone is hurt or in danger. Who acts: prank, people. A sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/) / 2 # Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 2 A prank stops being funny when it damages things, frightens animals, or makes people believe someone is hurt or in danger. **Who acts:** prank, people · **What happens:** stop, be, damage, frighten, make, believe · **To what, where:** things, animals, people, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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 (prank, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:2 # text = A prank stops being funny when it damages things, frightens animals, or makes people believe someone is hurt or in danger. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5: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 ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 damages damage VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 frightens frighten VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 ccomp _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **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 | **damage** | present | prank | things | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument thing=Patient | | 4 | **frighten** | present | prank *not said here* | animals | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | | 5 | **make** | present | prank *not said here* | people | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **believe** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **hurt** | present · passive | | someone | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:2`. **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, 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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