--- title: A prank is a trick played for fun, and a good one has three marks: n… — Funny pranks · tree and pragmatics description: A prank is a trick played for fun, and a good one has three marks: nobody is hurt, nothing is broken, and everyone laughs at the end — including the one who was pranked. Who acts: prank, good one, everyone. 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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 (prank, good one, everyone), 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:4 # text = A prank is a trick played for fun, and a good one has three marks: nobody is hurt, nothing is broken, and everyone laughs at the end — including the one who was pranked. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 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 , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 parataxis _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct 22 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 28 nsubj _ _ 28 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 — - PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 including include ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 pranked prank VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl:relcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **have** | present | a good one | three marks | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient | | 4 | **hurt** | present · passive | | nobody | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **break** | present · passive | | nothing | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 6 | **laugh** | present | everyone | | | | at the end | include the one | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **prank** | past · passive | | the one | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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