--- title: Pulling chairs away, tripping people and pushing them as a joke ofte… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusi… · tree and pragmatics description: Pulling chairs away, tripping people and pushing them as a joke often end in head or back injuries. Who acts: Pulling. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 23 Pulling chairs away, tripping people and pushing them as a joke often end in head or back injuries. **Who acts:** Pulling · **What happens:** pull away, trip, push, end · **To what, where:** chairs, people, head 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 (Pulling), 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:23 # text = Pulling chairs away, tripping people and pushing them as a joke often end in head or back injuries. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pulling pull VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 2 chairs chair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 away away ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 tripping trip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 pushing push VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 end end VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 injuries injury NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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** | gerund | | chairs | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **trip** | gerund | | people | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Agent | | 3 | **push** | gerund | | people | | | | as a joke | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **end** | present | Pulling | | | head and back or injuries | | often *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:23`. **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, R7-rel-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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