--- title: Ava set the clocks five minutes fast; Dad was early all week, but Gr… — Funny pranks · tree and pragmatics description: Ava set the clocks five minutes fast; Dad was early all week, but Gran nearly missed her bus home. Who acts: Ava, Dad, Gran. A sentence of the lesson «Funny pranks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/15/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/) / 15 # Funny pranks, sentence 15 Ava set the clocks five minutes fast; Dad was early all week, but Gran nearly missed her bus home. **Who acts:** Ava, Dad, Gran · **What happens:** set, be, miss · **To what, where:** clocks, bus This is a sentence of the lesson «Funny pranks» 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 (Ava, Dad, Gran), 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:15 # text = Ava set the clocks five minutes fast; Dad was early all week, but Gran nearly missed her bus home. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ava Ava PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 clocks clock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 Gran Gran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 home home ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 22 . . 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 | **set** | past | Ava | the clocks | | | | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient clock=Result | | 2 | **is** | past | Dad | | | | week | early *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **miss** | past | Gran | Gran's bus | | | | home, nearly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus | 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:15`. **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): 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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/14/) - next →: [Funny pranks, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/)