--- title: Funny pranks — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Funny pranks», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Ollie in Bristol put a rubber spider in his dad's slipper. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/) [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/) / Funny pranks # Funny pranks Lesson 438 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 30 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/438-funny-pranks/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/0/) — Ollie in Bristol put a rubber spider in his dad's slipper. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/1/) — Dad screamed like a kid, then laughed so hard he cried. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/2/) — «Proper job, son!» — West Country for «well done». - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/3/) — The next week Dad got him back with a rubber spider in the cereal. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/4/) — A prank is a trick played for fun, and a good one has three marks: nobody is hurt, nothing is broken, and everyone laughs at the end — including the one who was pranked. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/6/) — Sophie put googly eyes on everything in the fridge, and when Mum opened it a dozen eyes stared at her; Mum laughed and the photo went on the family group chat. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/7/) — Jayden in Atlanta wrapped his brother's whole desk in tin foil, pencil by pencil, which took two hours; his brother walked in and said «Bro, that's actually bussin'» — young slang for «amazing». - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/8/) — The bigger the effort and the smaller the harm, the better the prank. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/9/) — Some pranks go a bit wrong. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/10/) — Mia swapped salt for sugar in her brother's tea; he spat it across the table, laughed, and Mum made Mia make a fresh cup and clean up — fair enough. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/11/) — Leo jumped out at his sister from behind a door; Gran said «not near the stairs», a good point. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/12/) — Theo saw a cling-film-on-the-toilet prank online and tried it; it went everywhere, and Mum made him clean the whole bathroom. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/13/) — «Not so funny now, eh?» If you'd hate cleaning it up, it isn't a good prank. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/14/) — Some pranks cost people things they need. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/15/) — Ava set the clocks five minutes fast; Dad was early all week, but Gran nearly missed her bus home. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/17/) — Kirsty in Aberdeen hid her dad's car keys so he'd «look for ages» — he was late and nearly missed a job interview. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/18/) — «That's why we don't hide keys, pet. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/19/) — You never know what's riding on them.» - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/20/) — Noah's family in Vancouver has a «prank week» every summer with three rules: nothing that breaks, nothing that hurts, nothing that's mean. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/21/) — Everyone looks forward to it, nobody gets upset, and Grandpa wins every year with a rubber snake in the mailbox. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/22/) — A prank is a trick played for fun, not to hurt. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/23/) — A good prank causes no harm and no damage, and the person pranked laughs too. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/24/) — Pranks that need cleaning up should be cleaned up by the prankster. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/25/) — Food pranks are funny once, but never with anything that could make someone ill or with someone's allergy. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/26/) — Jump scares should never be done near stairs, hot drinks or someone who could be hurt by a fright. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/27/) — Pranks that mess with time, travel, money or tests can cost people things that matter. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/28/) — A pranked person needs to be told «only joking» before the trick causes harm. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/29/) — Never prank with things people need for work, safety or health, like keys or medicine. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/30/) — Pranks that everyone agrees to play, with clear rules, are the best kind. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/31/) — If you would hate the clean-up or hate it done to you, it is not a good prank. - ← previous: [When not to keep a friend's secret](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/) - next →: [Cruel pranks and where the line is](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)