--- title: A boy in England pulled a chair away as a joke when his friend sat d… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusi… · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in England pulled a chair away as a joke when his friend sat down; the friend fell, hit his head on the floor and needed hospital. Who acts: boy, 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 (boy, friend), 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:21 # text = A boy in England pulled a chair away as a joke when his friend sat down; the friend fell, hit his head on the floor and needed hospital. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 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 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound:prt 9 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 16 down down ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 30 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 . . 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 | **pull away** | past | a boy in England | a chair | | | | as a joke; away *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sit down** | past | boy's friend | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fall** | past | the friend | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hit** | past | the friend *not said here* | boy's head | | | | on the floor | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument on floor=Patient | | 5 | **need** | past | the friend *not said here* | hospital | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hospital=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:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:21`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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