--- title: Mia swapped salt for sugar in her brother's tea; he spat it across t… — Funny pranks · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Mia, prank, Mum. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mia, prank, Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:438-funny-pranks.lesson:10 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 438-funny-pranks.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 swapped swap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 spat spat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 across across ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 cup cup NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 — - PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 33 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 34 enough enough ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swap** | past | Mia | salt | | Mia's brother's tea | | for sugar | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent salt=Theme for sugar=Co-Theme | | 2 | **spat** | past | prank | salt | | the table | | | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | past | prank *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | past | Mum | Mia | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | infinitive | Mia *not said here* | a fresh cup | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cup=Product | | 6 | **clean up** | infinitive | Mia *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:438-funny-pranks.lesson:10`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Funny pranks, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/9/) - next →: [Funny pranks, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/)