--- title: Animals never understand pranks: they just get frightened, stressed… — Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adve… · tree and pragmatics description: Animals never understand pranks: they just get frightened, stressed or hurt. Who acts: Animals. A sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/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/) / [Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, h…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/) / 2 # Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 2 Animals never understand pranks: they just get frightened, stressed or hurt. **Who acts:** Animals · **What happens:** not understand, frighten, stress, hurt · **To what, where:** pranks, Animals This is a sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:2 # text = Animals never understand pranks: they just get frightened, stressed or hurt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 understand understand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 pranks prank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 stressed stress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **understand** | present | Animals | pranks | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer prank=Stimulus | | 2 | **frighten** | present · passive | | Animals *= animal* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **stress** | participle | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **hurt** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.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): R3-conj-first ×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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