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title: So big or strange news on April 1st deserves a check. — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics
description: So big or strange news on April 1st deserves a check. Who acts: big news. 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 5

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So big or strange news on April 1st deserves a check.

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**Who acts:** big news · **What happens:** deserve · **To what, where:** check

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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 (big news), 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:5
# text = So big or strange news on April 1st deserves a check.
# 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): no change
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	1st	1st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	5	nmod	_	_
9	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deserve** | present | big news on April 1st | a check |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:5`.

**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): no change. **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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