April Fools' Day, sentence 19
April Fools' Day is 1 April, when people in many countries play harmless tricks and tell made-up news.
Who acts: Day, people · What happens: be, play, tell, make up · To what, where: 1 April, harmless tricks, made news · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Day, people), 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 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fools | compound |
| 2 | Fools | fool | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Day | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 Fools | case |
| 4 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 April | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 April | cop |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 April | nummod |
| 7 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 April | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 play | advmod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 play | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 countries | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 countries | amod |
| 13 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 people | nmod |
| 14 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 April | acl:relcl |
| 15 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tricks | amod |
| 16 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 play | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tell | cc |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 play | conj |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 news | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 up | punct |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 made | compound:prt |
| 22 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 April | 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 | is a | present | April Fools's Day | 1 April | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | present | people in many countries | harmless tricks | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | people in many countries not said here | made news | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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:19.
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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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