--- title: Three tests for a prank: everyone laughs, including the pranked one;… — Cruel pranks and where the line is · tree and pragmatics description: Three tests for a prank: everyone laughs, including the pranked one; it can be undone easily; you'd be happy if it were done to you. Who acts: everyone, you. 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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 (everyone, you), 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:31 # text = Three tests for a prank: everyone laughs, including the pranked one; it can be undone easily; you'd be happy if it were done to you. # 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 ×3 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 prank prank NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound 8 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 including include VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 pranked prank VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 undone undo VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 19 easily easily ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 . . 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 | **laugh** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **include** | gerund | everyone *not said here* | the pranked one | | | | | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 3 | **prank** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **undo** | can · passive | | video | | | | easily *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **is** | would | you | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | | video | you | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | 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:31`. **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 ×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, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/30/) - next →: [Cruel pranks and where the line is, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/32/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/)