--- title: Emma was dared to prank-call a random number; a grandma answered, fr… — Cruel pranks and where the line is · tree and pragmatics description: Emma was dared to prank-call a random number; a grandma answered, frightened it was bad news about her grandson. Who acts: grandma, number. 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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 (grandma, number), 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:28 # text = Emma was dared to prank-call a random number; a grandma answered, frightened it was bad news about her grandson. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Emma Emma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 dared dare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:mark 5 prank prank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 call call VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 random random ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 ccomp _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 grandson grandson NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dare** | past · passive | | Emma | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **prank** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | to-infinitive | | a random number | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | a grandma | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **frighten** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** | past | number | bad news | | | | about grandma's grandson | 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:28`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/27/) - next →: [Cruel pranks and where the line is, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/)