April Fools' Day, sentence 23
A good April joke is silly, not scary, and is revealed quickly.
Who acts: good April joke · What happens: be, not be, reveal
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 (good April joke), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 joke | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joke | amod |
| 3 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 joke | compound |
| 4 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 silly | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 silly | cop |
| 6 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scary | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 scary | advmod |
| 9 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 silly | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 revealed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 revealed | cc |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 revealed | aux:pass |
| 13 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 silly | conj |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 revealed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 silly | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a good April joke | silly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not be | a good April joke not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | reveal | present · passive | a good April joke not said here | quickly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP» |
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:23.
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): R7-rel-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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