--- title: News and companies often publish joke stories on April 1st, like the… — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics description: News and companies often publish joke stories on April 1st, like the 1957 BBC report of spaghetti growing on trees. Who acts: News, spaghetti. 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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 (News, spaghetti), 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:15 # text = News and companies often publish joke stories on April 1st, like the 1957 BBC report of spaghetti growing on trees. # 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 News news NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 publish publish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 1st 1st NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 1957 1957 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 15 BBC BBC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 spaghetti spaghetti NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **publish** | present | News and companies | joke stories | | April 1st | | like the 1957 BBC report of spaghetti; often *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | spaghetti *not said here* | | | trees | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | | 3 | **report** | | | spaghetti | | | | | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:15`. **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…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/13/) - next →: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/)