--- title: In the UK and Ireland, tradition says April Fool tricks are done bef… — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK and Ireland, tradition says April Fool tricks are done before midday; whoever pranks after noon is the fool. Who acts: tradition, whoever. 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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 (tradition, whoever), 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:13 # text = In the UK and Ireland, tradition says April Fool tricks are done before midday; whoever pranks after noon is the fool. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 Fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 14 before before ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 pranks prank VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 csubj _ _ 19 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | tradition | | | the UK and Ireland | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | present · passive | | April Fool tricks | | | before midday | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 3 | **prank** | present | whoever | | | | noon | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | | the fool | | | | | 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](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:13`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/12/) - next →: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/)