April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 13
In the UK and Ireland, tradition says April Fool tricks are done before midday; whoever pranks after noon is the fool.
Who acts: tradition, whoever · What happens: say, do, prank, be · To what, where: UK, April Fool tricks, fool · 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 (tradition, whoever), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 UK | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 UK | det |
| 3 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Ireland | cc |
| 5 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 UK | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 UK | punct |
| 7 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tricks | compound |
| 10 | Fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tricks | compound |
| 11 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 done | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 done | aux:pass |
| 13 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 says | ccomp |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 midday | case |
| 15 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 pranks | punct |
| 17 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 pranks | nsubj |
| 18 | pranks | prank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 fool | csubj |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 noon | case |
| 20 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pranks | obl |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 fool | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fool | det |
| 23 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 done | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | tradition | the UK and Ireland | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do | present · passive | April Fool tricks | before midday | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | prank | present | whoever | noon | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the fool | tree rules |
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:13.
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): no change. 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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