--- title: On April 1st news websites and companies often publish joke stories;… — Harmful pranks, April Fools' tricks, hidden adve… · tree and pragmatics description: On April 1st news websites and companies often publish joke stories; in 1957 the BBC famously showed spaghetti «growing on trees». Who acts: April news websites, BBC. 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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 (April news websites, BBC), 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:3 # text = On April 1st news websites and companies often publish joke stories; in 1957 the BBC famously showed spaghetti «growing on trees». # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 On on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 3 1st 1st NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 4 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 websites website NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 companies company NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 publish publish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 1957 1957 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 obl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 BBC BBC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 famously famously ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 19 spaghetti spaghetti NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | April news websites and companies | 1st | | | | often *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | | 2 | **show** | past | the BBC | spaghetti | | | | in 1957; famously *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent spaghetti=Patient in 1957=Topic | | 3 | **grow** *in a quote* | gerund | the BBC *not said here* | | | trees | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | 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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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