--- title: On April 1st, newspapers, TV and companies often publish joke stories. — Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusi… · tree and pragmatics description: On April 1st, newspapers, TV and companies often publish joke stories. Who acts: newspapers. A sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/) / 3 # Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts, sentence 3 On April 1st, newspapers, TV and companies often publish joke stories. **Who acts:** newspapers · **What happens:** publish · **To what, where:** joke stories, April 1st This is a sentence of the lesson «Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Fools, illusions and adverts» 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 (newspapers), 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:3 # text = On April 1st, newspapers, TV and companies often publish joke stories. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 1st 1st NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 11 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 newspapers newspaper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 publish publish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | newspapers and TV and companies | joke stories | | April 1st | | often *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | 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: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/). - ← previous: [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/2/) - next →: [Kind jokes, teasing, pranks, April Foo…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/313-kind-jokes-pranks-april-fools-and-adverts/)