--- title: Lads in Sydney filmed themselves «pranking» a shop worker by pretend… — Cruel pranks and where the line is · tree and pragmatics description: Lads in Sydney filmed themselves «pranking» a shop worker by pretending to steal and running; they posted it, the worker was shaking, and when their mums saw it they had to go back and apologise in person. Who acts: Lads, worker, mums. 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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 (Lads, worker, mums), 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:26 # text = Lads in Sydney filmed themselves «pranking» a shop worker by pretending to steal and running; they posted it, the worker was shaking, and when their mums saw it they had to go back and apologise in person. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Lads lad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 filmed film VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 pranking prank VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl 12 by by SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 steal steal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 posted post VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 worker worker NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 mums mum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 back back ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 apologise apologise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **film** | past | Lads in Sydney | Lads *= lad* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **prank** *in a quote* | gerund | Lads in Sydney *not said here* | a shop worker | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pretend** | gerund | Lads in Sydney *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **steal** | to-infinitive | Lads in Sydney *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **run** | gerund | Lads in Sydney *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **post** | past | Lads *= lad* | worker | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **shake** | past · progressive | the worker | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **see** | past | Lads's mums | worker | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **have** | past | Lads *= lad* | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **go back** | to-infinitive | Lads *= lad* *not said here* | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 11 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | infinitive | Lads *= lad* *not said here* | | | | | in person | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/25/) - next →: [Cruel pranks and where the line is, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/)