--- title: Pretend emergencies cause real fear, and a frightened adult can take… — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics description: Pretend emergencies cause real fear, and a frightened adult can take dangerous risks such as driving too fast. Who acts: Pretend emergencies, frightened adult, dangerous risks. 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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 (Pretend emergencies, frightened adult, dangerous risks), 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:28 # text = Pretend emergencies cause real fear, and a frightened adult can take dangerous risks such as driving too fast. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Pretend pretend ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 emergencies emergency NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 cause cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 frightened frighten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 13 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 risks risk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 17 mark _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 driving drive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 18 too too ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 fast fast ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | present | Pretend emergencies | real fear | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fear=Patient | | 2 | **take** | can | a frightened adult | dangerous risks | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=Theme | | 3 | **drive** | gerund | dangerous risks *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | 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:28`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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…, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/27/) - next →: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/)