--- title: The fun is the shared laugh: a good trick is harmless, quickly revea… — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics description: The fun is the shared laugh: a good trick is harmless, quickly revealed, and the person fooled laughs too. Who acts: fun, good trick, person. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fun, good trick, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks.lesson:1 # text = The fun is the shared laugh: a good trick is harmless, quickly revealed, and the person fooled laughs too. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 laugh laugh NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 revealed reveal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 fooled fool VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 laughs laugh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 22 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 23 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **share** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | the fun | the shared laugh | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | a good trick | | | | | harmless *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **reveal** | participle | a good trick *not said here* | | | | | quickly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fool** | participle | | the person *not said here* | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **laugh** | present | the person | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks.lesson:1`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Honest schoolwork, kind jokes and pran…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/278-honest-work-kind-jokes-and-harmless-play/26/) - next →: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/)