April Fools' Day, sentence 3

In Britain and Ireland an old rule says the tricks stop at midday: when Liam's friend tried one in the afternoon, Liam said «Too late — after noon, you're the fool!»

Who acts: old rule, tricks, friend, Liam, you · What happens: say, stop, try, be · 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 (old rule, tricks, friend, Liam), 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	8 says	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Ireland	cc
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Britain	conj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rule	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rule	amod
7	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tricks	det
10	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stop	nsubj
11	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	ccomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 midday	case
13	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stop	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 tried	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 tried	advmod
16	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 friend	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Liam	case
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tried	nsubj
19	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 said	advcl
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 tried	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 afternoon	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 afternoon	det
23	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tried	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 says	parataxis
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
28	Too	too	ADV	_	29 late	advmod
29	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 said	advmod
30	—	-	PUNCT	_	37 fool	punct
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 noon	case
32	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fool	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 noon	punct
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 fool	nsubj
35	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 fool	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 fool	det
37	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	ccomp
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 fool	punct
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	a old rule		Britain and Ireland			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	present	the tricks		midday			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at midday=Location
3	try	past	Liam's friend	one		afternoon		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	Liam				late property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	you	the fool		noon		tree rules

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:3.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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