April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 26

A boy in Texas texted his mum on April Fools' Day that he had been in an accident; she left work in tears and drove off in a panic before he could say it was a joke.

Who acts: boy, fool, work · What happens: text, be, leave, drive off, say · To what, where: mum, accident, work, tears, panic, joke · 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 (boy, fool, work), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 texted	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	texted	text	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mum	nmod:poss
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 texted	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 Day	case
9	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Fools	compound
10	Fools	fool	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 Day	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 Fools	case
12	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 texted	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 accident	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 accident	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 accident	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 accident	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 accident	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 accident	det
19	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 texted	advcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 left	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 left	nsubj
22	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 texted	parataxis
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 left	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 tears	case
25	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 left	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drove	cc
27	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 left	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 drove	compound:prt
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 panic	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 panic	det
31	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drove	obl
32	before	before	SCONJ	_	35 say	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 say	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 say	aux
35	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 drove	advcl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 joke	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 joke	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 joke	det
39	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 say	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 texted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	text	past	a boy in Texas	boy's mum		on April Fools's Day	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	boy		a accident		tree rules
3	leave	past	fool	work	tears		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent work=Theme in tear=Location
4	drive off	past	fool not said here		a panic		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	could	boy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	work	a joke			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:26.

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 ×1, 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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