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title: If your trick upsets someone, say sorry and tell the truth at once;… — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics
description: If your trick upsets someone, say sorry and tell the truth at once; the joke is over as soon as someone is hurt. Who acts: trick, you, joke, your. A sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 17

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If your trick upsets someone, say sorry and tell the truth at once; the joke is over as soon as someone is hurt.

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**Who acts:** trick, you, joke, your · **What happens:** upset, say, tell, be, hurt, trick · **To what, where:** someone, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work» 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 (trick, you, joke, your), 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:17
# text = If your trick upsets someone, say sorry and tell the truth at once; the joke is over as soon as someone is hurt.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	upsets	upset	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	parataxis	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **upset** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | your trick | someone |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | the joke |  |  |  |  | over, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hurt** | present · passive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **trick** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:17`.

**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.

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