--- title: Emma hung up, felt awful and told her mum: «You never know who's on… — Cruel pranks and where the line is · tree and pragmatics description: Emma hung up, felt awful and told her mum: «You never know who's on the other end.» Who acts: Emma, 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/29/) [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/) / 29 # Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 29 Emma hung up, felt awful and told her mum: «You never know who's on the other end.» **Who acts:** Emma, mum · **What happens:** hang up, feel, tell, not know, be · **To what, where:** mum, other end · **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 (Emma, 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:29 # text = Emma hung up, felt awful and told her mum: «You never know who's on the other end.» # 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 1 Emma Emma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 iobj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 17 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang up** | past | Emma | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **feel** | past | Emma *not said here* | | | | | awful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Emma *not said here* | | Emma's mum | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present | Emma's mum *= mum* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | on the other end | | 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:29`. **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. **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, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/28/) - next →: [Cruel pranks and where the line is, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/)