April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 2
In the UK and Ireland the tradition says tricks stop at midday; in Scotland the day is called «Hunt the Gowk», and a gowk is a cuckoo, meaning a fool.
Who acts: tradition, tricks, gowk · What happens: say, stop, call, hunt, be, mean · To what, where: UK, midday, day, Scotland, Gowk », cuckoo · 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, tricks, gowk), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tradition | det |
| 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 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stop | nsubj |
| 10 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 midday | case |
| 12 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stop | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Scotland | case |
| 15 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 called | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 called | aux:pass |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 says | parataxis |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 Hunt | punct |
| 21 | Hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 called | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Gowk | det |
| 23 | Gowk | Gowk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 » | compound |
| 24 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Hunt | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cuckoo | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 cuckoo | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 gowk | det |
| 28 | gowk | gowk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cuckoo | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 cuckoo | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 cuckoo | det |
| 31 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 meaning | punct |
| 33 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 cuckoo | advcl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 fool | det |
| 35 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 meaning | obj |
| 36 | . | . | 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 | the tradition | the UK and Ireland | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | tricks | midday | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at midday=Location | ||||
| 3 | call speech: assert | present · passive | the day | Scotland | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hunt in a quote | infinitive | Gowk » | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent »=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | a gowk | a cuckoo | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mean | gerund | a gowk not said here | a fool | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Topic |
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:2.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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