--- title: Pranks that startle someone who is driving, cooking or on stairs can… — Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adve… · tree and pragmatics description: Pranks that startle someone who is driving, cooking or on stairs can cause real accidents. Who acts: Pranks. 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 --- [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/26/) [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/) / 26 # Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 26 Pranks that startle someone who is driving, cooking or on stairs can cause real accidents. **Who acts:** Pranks · **What happens:** startle, drive, cook, cause · **To what, where:** someone, real accidents 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 (Pranks), 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:26 # text = Pranks that startle someone who is driving, cooking or on stairs can cause real accidents. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Pranks prank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 startle startle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 cooking cook VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 accidents accident NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **startle** | present | Pranks | someone | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer | | 2 | **drive** | present · progressive | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cook** | gerund | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **cause** | can | Pranks | real accidents | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition accident=Patient | 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:26`. **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): R6-punct-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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