April Fools' Day, sentence 27
Joke messages about free prizes can make people travel or spend for nothing, just like a scam.
Who acts: Joke messages, people · What happens: make, travel, spend · To what, where: people
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 (Joke messages, 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 | Joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 messages | compound |
| 2 | messages | message | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 prizes | case |
| 4 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prizes | amod |
| 5 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 messages | nmod |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 spend | cc |
| 11 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 travel | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 nothing | case |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 spend | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 scam | punct |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 scam | advmod |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 scam | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 scam | det |
| 18 | scam | scam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 travel | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | Joke messages about free prizes | people | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | travel | infinitive | people not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spend | infinitive | people not said here | for nothing | vn pay-68 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for nothing=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:27.
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): R6-punct-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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