April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 15
News and companies often publish joke stories on April 1st, like the 1957 BBC report of spaghetti growing on trees.
Who acts: News, spaghetti · What happens: publish, grow, report · To what, where: joke stories, April 1st, trees, spaghetti
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 (News, spaghetti), 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 | News | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 publish | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 companies | cc |
| 3 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 News | conj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 publish | advmod |
| 5 | publish | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stories | compound |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 publish | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 1st | case |
| 9 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 1st | compound |
| 10 | 1st | 1st | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 5 publish | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 report | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 report | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 report | det |
| 14 | 1957 | 1957 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 report | nummod |
| 15 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 report | compound |
| 16 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 publish | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 spaghetti | case |
| 18 | spaghetti | spaghetti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 report | nmod |
| 19 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 spaghetti | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 trees | case |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 growing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 publish | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | present | News and companies | joke stories | April 1st | like the 1957 BBC report of spaghetti; often property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | ||
| 2 | grow | gerund | spaghetti not said here | trees | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | report | spaghetti | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:15.
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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