--- title: Animals do not understand jokes, and a frightened animal may run int… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusi… · tree and pragmatics description: Animals do not understand jokes, and a frightened animal may run into danger. Who acts: Animals, frightened animal. 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 pragmatics o --- [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/24/) [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/) / 24 # Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 24 Animals do not understand jokes, and a frightened animal may run into danger. **Who acts:** Animals, frightened animal · **What happens:** not understand, run · **To what, where:** jokes, danger 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 (Animals, frightened animal), 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:24 # text = Animals do not understand jokes, and a frightened animal may run into 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): no change 1 Animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 frightened frighten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | Animals | jokes | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus | | 2 | **run** | may | a frightened animal | | | | | into danger *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into danger=Result | 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:24`. **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): no change. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/23/) - next →: [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo…, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/)