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title: Never pretend to be hurt, missing or in danger as a joke; it causes… — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics
description: Never pretend to be hurt, missing or in danger as a joke; it causes real fear and can waste emergency services' time. Who acts: you, joke. 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 pragmatics
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# April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 18

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Never pretend to be hurt, missing or in danger as a joke; it causes real fear and can waste emergency services' time.

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**Who acts:** you, joke · **What happens:** not pretend, hurt, miss, cause, waste · **To what, where:** real fear

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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 (you, joke), 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:18
# text = Never pretend to be hurt, missing or in danger as a joke; it causes real fear and can waste emergency services' time.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	waste	waste	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	'	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **not** **pretend** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **miss** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **cause** | present | joke | real fear |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fear=Patient |
| 5 | **waste** | can | joke *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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:18`.

**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, R3-conj-first ×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/).

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