April Fools' Day, sentence 20
In Britain and Ireland tradition says April Fools' tricks should stop at midday, and someone who plays one after noon is the fool.
Who acts: tradition, tricks, someone, April Fools · What happens: say, stop, play, be, trick · To what, where: Britain, midday, one, fool · 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 (tradition, tricks, someone, April Fools), 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 Britain | case |
| 2 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Ireland | cc |
| 4 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Britain | conj |
| 5 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fools | compound |
| 8 | Fools | fool | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 Fools | case |
| 10 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stop | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stop | aux |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 midday | case |
| 14 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stop | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fool | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fool | cc |
| 17 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 fool | nsubj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 plays | nsubj |
| 19 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 someone | acl:relcl |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 plays | obj |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 noon | case |
| 22 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plays | obl |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 fool | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fool | det |
| 25 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | 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 | say speech: assert | present | tradition | Britain and Ireland | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stop | should | April Fools's tricks | midday | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at midday=Location | ||||
| 3 | play | present | one | noon | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | someone | the fool | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | trick | April Fools | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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:20.
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): 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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