April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 1
The fun is the shared laugh: a good trick is harmless, quickly revealed, and the person fooled laughs too.
Who acts: fun, good trick, person · What happens: share, be, reveal, fool, laugh · To what, where: shared laugh, person
This is a sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work» 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 (fun, good trick, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fun | det |
| 2 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laugh | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 laugh | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 laugh | det |
| 5 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 laugh | amod |
| 6 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 harmless | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 trick | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trick | amod |
| 10 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 harmless | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 harmless | cop |
| 12 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 laugh | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 revealed | punct |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 revealed | advmod |
| 15 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 harmless | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 laughs | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 laughs | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 person | det |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 laughs | nsubj |
| 20 | fooled | fool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 person | acl |
| 21 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 harmless | conj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 laughs | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the fun | the shared laugh | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a good trick | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reveal | participle | a good trick not said here | quickly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fool | participle | the person not said here | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | laugh | present | the person | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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, 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:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks.lesson:1.
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. 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.
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