--- title: A girl in Dublin put salt in her friend's drink as a trick; her frie… — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Dublin put salt in her friend's drink as a trick; her friend had a medical condition that meant salt could make her ill, and she was sick for the afternoon. Who acts: girl, friend, medical condition, salt. 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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 (girl, friend, medical condition, salt), 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:27 # text = A girl in Dublin put salt in her friend's drink as a trick; her friend had a medical condition that meant salt could make her ill, and she was sick for the afternoon. # 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, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 medical medical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | a girl in Dublin | salt | | girl's friend's drink | | as a trick | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme in drink=Destination | | 2 | **have** | past | girl's friend | a medical condition | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | past | a medical condition | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** | could | salt | | | | | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **is** | past | salt | | | | afternoon | sick *property* | 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:27`. **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, R5-strong ×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…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/26/) - next →: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/)