--- title: Ella's grandpa in Texas swears every year he's seen a jackalope — a… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: Ella's grandpa in Texas swears every year he's seen a jackalope — a made-up rabbit with antlers — and shows a stuffed toy as «proof». Who acts: grandpa. A sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/12/) [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/) / [April Fools' Day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/) / 12 # April Fools' Day, sentence 12 Ella's grandpa in Texas swears every year he's seen a jackalope — a made-up rabbit with antlers — and shows a stuffed toy as «proof». **Who acts:** grandpa · **What happens:** swear, see, make up, show, stuff · **To what, where:** jackalope, stuffed toy This is a sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day» 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 (grandpa), 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:12 # text = Ella's grandpa in Texas swears every year he's seen a jackalope — a made-up rabbit with antlers — and shows a stuffed toy as «proof». # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 grandpa grandpa NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 swears swear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl:unmarked 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 's have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 ccomp _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 jackalope jackalope NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 — - PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 19 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 antlers antler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ _ 22 — - PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 stuffed stuff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 proof proof NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 . . 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 | **swear** | present | Ella's grandpa in Texas | | | | year | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present · perfect | grandpa | a jackalope | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jackalope=Stimulus | | 3 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **show** | present | Ella's grandpa in Texas *not said here* | a stuffed toy | | | | as proof | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toy=Recipient | | 5 | **stuff** | participle | | | | | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: 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:440-april-fools-day.lesson:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [April Fools' Day, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/11/) - next →: [April Fools' Day, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/)