April Fools' Day, sentence 22
Companies often use 1 April for joke products or news, which also gets them attention.
Who acts: Companies, news · What happens: use, get · To what, where: Companies
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 (Companies, news), 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 | Companies | company | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 use | advmod |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 April | nummod |
| 5 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 use | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 products | case |
| 7 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 products | compound |
| 8 | products | product | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 news | cc |
| 10 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 products | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gets | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 gets | nsubj |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 gets | advmod |
| 14 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 news | acl:relcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gets | obj |
| 16 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gets | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | 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 | use | present | Companies | april | for joke products or news; often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | get | present | news | Companies = company | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary attention=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:22.
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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