--- title: Many news websites and companies publish joke stories on April Fools… — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusi… · tree and pragmatics description: Many news websites and companies publish joke stories on April Fools' Day, so check the date and think. Who acts: Many news websites. 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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 (Many news websites), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:13 # text = Many news websites and companies publish joke stories on April Fools' Day, so check the date and think. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.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 ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 websites website NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 publish publish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound 11 Fools fool PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 13 nmod:poss _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 12 ' 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 date date NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **publish** | present | Many news websites and companies | joke stories | | | on April Fools's Day | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | | 2 | **check** | infinitive | | the date | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP 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:313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts.lesson:13`. **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 ×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. 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