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title: News websites and companies join in. — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics
description: News websites and companies join in. Who acts: News websites. 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 of every clause.
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# April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 3

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News websites and companies join in.

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**Who acts:** News websites · **What happens:** join in

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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 (News websites), 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:3
# text = News websites and companies join in.
# 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
1	News	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	websites	website	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **join in** | present | News websites and companies |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:3`.

**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. **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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