April Fools' Day, sentence 14
Bad April jokes are scary or cost people something.
Who acts: Bad April jokes · What happens: be, cost · To what, where: something, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day» 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 (Bad April jokes), 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 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 jokes | amod |
| 2 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 jokes | compound |
| 3 | jokes | joke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scary | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 scary | cop |
| 5 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 cost | cc |
| 7 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scary | conj |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cost | iobj |
| 9 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 cost | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scary | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bad April jokes | scary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cost | infinitive | Bad April jokes not said here | something | people | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme people=Beneficiary something=Value |
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:440-april-fools-day.lesson:14.
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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