April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 12
April Fool tricks should be gentle and harmless, with «April Fool!» said quickly.
Who acts: Fool tricks, April Fool · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fool tricks, April Fool), 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 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fool | compound |
| 2 | Fool | fool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tricks | compound |
| 3 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gentle | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 gentle | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gentle | cop |
| 6 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 harmless | cc |
| 8 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gentle | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Fool | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Fool | case |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 Fool | punct |
| 12 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fool | compound |
| 13 | Fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gentle | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Fool | punct |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 Fool | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Fool | acl |
| 17 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 16 said | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gentle | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | Fool tricks | with April Fool; gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Fool tricks not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | April Fool not said here | quickly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:12.
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.
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