April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 16
If someone tells you big news on April 1st, check with an adult before believing it.
Who acts: someone, you · What happens: tell, check, believe · To what, where: big news, you, April 1st, news · 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 (someone, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 tells | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 check | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tells | iobj |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 news | amod |
| 6 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 1st | case |
| 8 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 1st | compound |
| 9 | 1st | 1st | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 6 news | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| 11 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 adult | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 adult | det |
| 14 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 check | obl |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 16 believing | mark |
| 16 | believing | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 check | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 believing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 check | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | someone | big news | you | April 1st | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient news=Topic | ||
| 2 | check | imperative | you not said here | with a adult | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | believe | gerund | you not said here | news | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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:16.
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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