April Fools' Day, sentence 21
In 1957 the BBC programme Panorama showed a spoof film of spaghetti growing on trees, and many viewers believed it.
Who acts: BBC programme, spoof film, many viewers · What happens: show, grow, believe, film · To what, where: spoof film, trees, film, spaghetti
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 (BBC programme, spoof film, many viewers), 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 1957 | case |
| 2 | 1957 | 1957 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 showed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 programme | det |
| 4 | BBC | BBC | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 programme | compound |
| 5 | programme | programme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showed | nsubj |
| 6 | Panorama | panorama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 programme | appos |
| 7 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 film | det |
| 9 | spoof | spoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 film | compound |
| 10 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 spaghetti | case |
| 12 | spaghetti | spaghetti | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 film | nmod |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 film | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 growing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 believed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 believed | cc |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 viewers | amod |
| 19 | viewers | viewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 believed | nsubj |
| 20 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 showed | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 believed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the BBC programme | a spoof film of spaghetti | in 1957 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent film=Patient in 1957=Topic | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | a spoof film of spaghetti not said here | trees | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | believe | past | many viewers | film | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | film | spaghetti | nom film «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:21.
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): R5-strong ×4. 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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