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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 (Theo, cup, Mum, prank), 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:12 # text = Theo saw a cling-film-on-the-toilet prank online and tried it; it went everywhere, and Mum made him clean the whole bathroom. # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Theo Theo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 4 cling cling NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 14 online online ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 21 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 clean clean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 bathroom bathroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Theo | a film toilet prank | | | | online *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prank=Stimulus | | 2 | **try** | past | Theo *not said here* | cup | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 3 | **go** | past | cup | | | | | everywhere *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **make** | past | Mum | prank | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **clean** | infinitive | prank *not said here* | the whole bathroom | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bathroom=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:12`. **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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/11/) - next →: [Funny pranks, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/)