--- title: In the UK and Ireland the tradition says tricks stop at midday; in S… — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK and Ireland the tradition says tricks stop at midday; in Scotland the day is called «Hunt the Gowk», and a gowk is a cuckoo, meaning a fool. Who acts: tradition, tricks, gowk. 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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, tricks, gowk), 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:2 # text = In the UK and Ireland the tradition says tricks stop at midday; in Scotland the day is called «Hunt the Gowk», and a gowk is a cuckoo, meaning a 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 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 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 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 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 21 Hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advcl 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det 23 Gowk Gowk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 » » PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 gowk gowk NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 cuckoo cuckoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 meaning mean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advcl 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 . . 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 | the tradition | | | the UK and Ireland | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stop** | present | tricks | | | midday | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at midday=Location | | 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | the day | | Scotland | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hunt** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Gowk » | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent »=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | a gowk | a cuckoo | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **mean** | gerund | a gowk *not said here* | a fool | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Topic | 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:2`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/1/) - next →: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/)