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title: Tricking a younger child into eating something gross or doing someth… — Cruel pranks and where the line is · tree and pragmatics
description: Tricking a younger child into eating something gross or doing something risky is using their trust. Who acts: Tricking, falls. 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.
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# Cruel pranks and where the line is, sentence 36

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Tricking a younger child into eating something gross or doing something risky is using their trust.

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**Who acts:** Tricking, falls · **What happens:** trick, eat, do, use, trust · **To what, where:** younger child, something, trust

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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 (Tricking, falls), 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:36
# text = Tricking a younger child into eating something gross or doing something risky is using their trust.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Tricking	trick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
6	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound
8	gross	gross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
11	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	risky	risky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | gerund |  | a younger child |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | gerund |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 4 | **use** | present · progressive | Tricking | falls's trust |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Patient |
| 5 | **trust** |  | falls |  |  |  |  |  | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:36`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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