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title: Putting anything into someone's food or drink without them knowing i… — Cruel pranks and where the line is · tree and pragmatics
description: Putting anything into someone's food or drink without them knowing is not a joke; it could make them ill. Who acts: falls, Putting, video. 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 ever
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# Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 35

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Putting anything into someone's food or drink without them knowing is not a joke; it could make them ill.

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**Who acts:** falls, Putting, video · **What happens:** put, know, not be, make · **To what, where:** anything, food, joke, falls · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (falls, Putting, video), 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:35
# text = Putting anything into someone's food or drink without them knowing is not a joke; it could make them ill.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	_
2	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
9	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | gerund |  | anything |  | someone's food or drink |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent anything=Goal |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | falls |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **be** *speech: other* | present | Putting | a joke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | could | video | falls |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product |

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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.

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**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:35`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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