--- title: Jade in Wales put a fake «wet paint» sign on her brother's chair, an… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: Jade in Wales put a fake «wet paint» sign on her brother's chair, and he stood all through dinner while Mum laughed into her cawl, a Welsh stew; next day he put the sign on Jade's chair. Who acts: Jade, Wales, Mum. 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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 (Jade, Wales, Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:440-april-fools-day.lesson:11 # text = Jade in Wales put a fake «wet paint» sign on her brother's chair, and he stood all through dinner while Mum laughed into her cawl, a Welsh stew; next day he put the sign on Jade's chair. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 440-april-fools-day.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Jade Jade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 6 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 paint paint NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 all all ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obj 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 Mum Mum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 cawl cawl NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 Welsh welsh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 stew stew NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:conj 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 Jade Jade PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | Jade in Wales | a fake paint sign | | Jade's brother's chair | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme on chair=Destination | | 2 | **stand** | past | Wales | | | dinner | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through dinner=Location | | 3 | **laugh** | past | Mum | | | Jade's cawl | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into cawl=Recipient | | 4 | **put** | past | Wales | the sign | | Jade's chair | day | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme on chair=Destination | 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:440-april-fools-day.lesson:11`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [April Fools' Day, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/9/) - next →: [April Fools' Day, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/)