Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 3
On April 1st news websites and companies often publish joke stories; in 1957 the BBC famously showed spaghetti «growing on trees».
Who acts: April news websites, BBC · What happens: publish, show, grow · To what, where: 1st, spaghetti, trees · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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 (April news websites, BBC), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 websites | case |
| 2 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 websites | compound |
| 3 | 1st | 1st | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 9 publish | obl |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 websites | compound |
| 5 | websites | website | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 publish | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 companies | cc |
| 7 | companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 websites | conj |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 publish | advmod |
| 9 | publish | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stories | compound |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 publish | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 showed | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 1957 | case |
| 14 | 1957 | 1957 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 showed | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 BBC | det |
| 16 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | nsubj |
| 17 | famously | famously | ADV | _ | 18 showed | advmod |
| 18 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 publish | parataxis |
| 19 | spaghetti | spaghetti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | obj |
| 20 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 growing | punct |
| 21 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 showed | advcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 trees | case |
| 23 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 growing | obl |
| 24 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 growing | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 publish | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | present | April news websites and companies | 1st | often property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | |||
| 2 | show | past | the BBC | spaghetti | in 1957; famously property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent spaghetti=Patient in 1957=Topic | |||
| 3 | grow in a quote | gerund | the BBC not said here | trees | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location |
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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:3.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/3/