--- title: A prank is a trick played for fun, not to hurt. — Funny pranks · tree and pragmatics description: A prank is a trick played for fun, not to hurt. Who acts: prank. 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/22/) [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/) / 22 # Funny pranks, sentence 22 A prank is a trick played for fun, not to hurt. **Who acts:** prank · **What happens:** be, play, not hurt · **To what, where:** trick 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 (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:22 # text = A prank is a trick played for fun, not to hurt. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 played play VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a prank | a trick | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **play** | participle | | a trick *not said here* | | | | for fun | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for fun=Eventuality | | 3 | **not** **hurt** | to-infinitive | a prank *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:22`. **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): no change. **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, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/21/) - next →: [Funny pranks, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/)