--- title: Everyone looks forward to it, nobody gets upset, and Grandpa wins ev… — Funny pranks · tree and pragmatics description: Everyone looks forward to it, nobody gets upset, and Grandpa wins every year with a rubber snake in the mailbox. Who acts: Everyone, nobody, Grandpa. 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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Funny pranks, sentence 21 Everyone looks forward to it, nobody gets upset, and Grandpa wins every year with a rubber snake in the mailbox. **Who acts:** Everyone, nobody, Grandpa · **What happens:** look, get, win · **To what, where:** family 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 (Everyone, nobody, Grandpa), 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:21 # text = Everyone looks forward to it, nobody gets upset, and Grandpa wins every year with a rubber snake in the mailbox. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 forward forward ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 nsubj _ _ 8 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 Grandpa Grandpa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 wins win VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obj 16 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 mailbox mailbox NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 . . 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 | **look** | present | Everyone | | family | | | forward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme | | 2 | **get** | present | nobody | | | | | upset *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **win** | present | Grandpa | | | | year | with a rubber snake in the mailbox | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:21`. **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): 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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/20/) - next →: [Funny pranks, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/)