April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 17

If your trick upsets someone, say sorry and tell the truth at once; the joke is over as soon as someone is hurt.

Who acts: trick, you, joke, your · What happens: upset, say, tell, be, hurt, trick · To what, where: someone, truth · 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 (trick, you, joke, your), 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	_	4 upsets	mark
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 trick	nmod:poss
3	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 upsets	nsubj
4	upsets	upset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	advcl
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 upsets	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 upsets	punct
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 say	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 truth	det
12	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 tell	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 over	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 joke	det
17	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 over	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 over	cop
19	over	over	ADV	_	7 say	parataxis
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 soon	advmod
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 over	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 hurt	mark
23	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	25 hurt	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hurt	aux:pass
25	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 soon	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	upset a condition, not said to happen	present	your trick	someone		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	the truth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
4	is	present	the joke		over, soon property	tree rules
5	hurt	present · passive		someone		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	trick		your			nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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:17.

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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