April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 4
In 1957 the BBC showed a famous report of spaghetti «growing on trees» in Switzerland, and many viewers believed it.
Who acts: BBC, spaghetti, many viewers · What happens: show, grow, believe, report · To what, where: famous report, trees, report, spaghetti · 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 (BBC, spaghetti, many viewers), 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 | _ | 2 1957 | case |
| 2 | 1957 | 1957 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 showed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 BBC | det |
| 4 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 showed | nsubj |
| 5 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 report | det |
| 7 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 report | amod |
| 8 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 showed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 spaghetti | case |
| 10 | spaghetti | spaghetti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 report | nmod |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 growing | punct |
| 12 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 spaghetti | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 growing | obl |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 growing | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Switzerland | case |
| 17 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 growing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 believed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 believed | cc |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 viewers | amod |
| 21 | viewers | viewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 believed | nsubj |
| 22 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 showed | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 believed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the BBC | a famous report of spaghetti | in 1957 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent report=Patient in 1957=Topic | |||
| 2 | grow in a quote | gerund | spaghetti not said here | trees | in Switzerland | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | |||
| 3 | believe | past | many viewers | report | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | 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:4.
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, R6-punct-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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