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title: The class tried them on ten real pranks, and half failed. — Cruel pranks and where the line is · tree and pragmatics
description: The class tried them on ten real pranks, and half failed. Who acts: class, half. A sentence of the lesson «Cruel pranks and where the line is» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 10

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The class tried them on ten real pranks, and half failed.

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**Who acts:** class, half · **What happens:** try, fail · **To what, where:** tests, ten real pranks

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cruel pranks and where the line is» 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 (class, half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:10
# text = The class tried them on ten real pranks, and half failed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pranks	prank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	nsubj	_	_
12	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | the class | tests *= test* |  | ten real pranks |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 2 | **fail** | past | half |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:10`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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