--- title: On April Fools' Day, news and companies often publish joke stories,… — Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adve… · tree and pragmatics description: On April Fools' Day, news and companies often publish joke stories, so check the date and think. Who acts: news. A sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/14/) [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/) / [Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, h…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers/) / 14 # Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers, sentence 14 On April Fools' Day, news and companies often publish joke stories, so check the date and think. **Who acts:** news · **What happens:** publish, check, think · **To what, where:** joke stories, April Fools, date This is a sentence of the lesson «Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adverts and too-good-to-be-true offers» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:14 # text = On April Fools' Day, news and companies often publish joke stories, so check the date and think. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.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 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Fools fool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 4 ' 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 often often ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 publish publish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advcl 12 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 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 . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **publish** | present | news and companies | joke stories | | April Fools | | often *property* | 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:334-pranks-april-fools-adverts-and-too-good-offers.lesson:14`. **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. **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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