--- title: Nobody came — they had made it up to laugh at him. — Cruel pranks and where the line is · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody came — they had made it up to laugh at him. Who acts: Nobody, kids. 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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 2 Nobody came — they had made it up to laugh at him. **Who acts:** Nobody, kids · **What happens:** come, make up, laugh · **To what, where:** party 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 (Nobody, kids), 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:2 # text = Nobody came — they had made it up to laugh at him. # 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 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 — - PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 laugh laugh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Nobody | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make up** | past · perfect | kids *= kid* | party | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot | | 3 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | kids *= kid* *not said here* | | | | | at Callum | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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/). - ← previous: [Cruel pranks and where the line is, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/0/) - next →: [Cruel pranks and where the line is, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/)