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title: Jump scares should never be done near stairs, hot drinks or someone… — Funny pranks · tree and pragmatics
description: Jump scares should never be done near stairs, hot drinks or someone who could be hurt by a fright. Who acts: fright. 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.
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# Funny pranks, sentence 26

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Jump scares should never be done near stairs, hot drinks or someone who could be hurt by a fright.

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**Who acts:** fright · **What happens:** not do, hurt · **To what, where:** Jump scares, stairs

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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 (fright), 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:26
# text = Jump scares should never be done near stairs, hot drinks or someone who could be hurt by a fright.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	scares	scare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | should · passive |  | Jump scares |  | stairs and hot drinks |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hurt** | could · passive | a fright |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient |

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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.

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**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:26`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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/).

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