--- title: «That's why it's not funny in real life,» said Jake's mum; prank vid… — Cruel pranks and where the line is · tree and pragmatics description: «That's why it's not funny in real life,» said Jake's mum; prank videos are often set up. Who acts: mate, mum. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/16/) [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/) / [Cruel pranks and where the line is](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/) / 16 # Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 16 «That's why it's not funny in real life,» said Jake's mum; prank videos are often set up. **Who acts:** mate, mum · **What happens:** not be, say, set up · **To what, where:** real life, prank videos · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (mate, mum), 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:16 # text = «That's why it's not funny in real life,» said Jake's mum; prank videos are often set up. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 2 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:JJ:Number=Sing 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 videos video NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 often often ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | mate | | | real life | | funny *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jake's mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **set up** | present · passive | | prank videos | | | | often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | 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:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.lesson:16`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Cruel pranks and where the line is, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/15/) - next →: [Cruel pranks and where the line is, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/)