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title: But nobody should ever pretend to be hurt, missing or in danger as a… — Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adve… · tree and pragmatics
description: But nobody should ever pretend to be hurt, missing or in danger as a joke. Who acts: nobody. 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 ev
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# Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 5

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But nobody should ever pretend to be hurt, missing or in danger as a joke.

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**Who acts:** nobody · **What happens:** pretend, hurt, miss

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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 (nobody), 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:5
# text = But nobody should ever pretend to be hurt, missing or in danger as a joke.
# 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): no change
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **pretend** | should | nobody |  |  |  | ever | as a joke | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** | to-infinitive · passive | nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **miss** | gerund | nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:5`.

**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/).

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