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title: A teenager in Canada filmed himself hiding a fake spider in a friend… — Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adve… · tree and pragmatics
description: A teenager in Canada filmed himself hiding a fake spider in a friend's car; the friend panicked while driving and crashed into a fence. Who acts: teenager, friend. A sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» of the everyday course of 
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# Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 24

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A teenager in Canada filmed himself hiding a fake spider in a friend's car; the friend panicked while driving and crashed into a fence.

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**Who acts:** teenager, friend · **What happens:** film, hide, panic, drive, crash · **To what, where:** teenager, fake spider, car, fence

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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 (teenager, friend), 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:24
# text = A teenager in Canada filmed himself hiding a fake spider in a friend's car; the friend panicked while driving and crashed into a fence.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teenager	teenager	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Canada	Canada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	filmed	film	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fake	fake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	panicked	panic	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **film** | past | a teenager in Canada | teenager |  |  |  |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund | a teenager in Canada *not said here* | a fake spider |  | a friend's car |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spider=Patient in car=Location |
| 3 | **panic** | past | the friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drive** | gerund | the friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **crash** | past | the friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a fence *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into fence=Result |

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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.

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**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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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