April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 5
So big or strange news on April 1st deserves a check.
Who acts: big news · What happens: deserve · To what, where: check
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 (big news), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 big | advmod |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 news | amod |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 strange | cc |
| 4 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 big | conj |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deserves | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 1st | case |
| 7 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 1st | compound |
| 8 | 1st | 1st | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 5 news | nmod |
| 9 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 check | det |
| 11 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deserves | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 deserves | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present | big news on April 1st | a check | 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:5.
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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