--- title: Bad April jokes are scary or cost people something. — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: Bad April jokes are scary or cost people something. Who acts: Bad April jokes. 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 clause. --- [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/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/) / [April Fools' Day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/) / 14 # April Fools' Day, sentence 14 Bad April jokes are scary or cost people something. **Who acts:** Bad April jokes · **What happens:** be, cost · **To what, where:** something, people 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 (Bad April jokes), 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:14 # text = Bad April jokes are scary or cost people something. # 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): no change 1 Bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 cost cost VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 iobj _ _ 9 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obj _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Bad April jokes | | | | | scary *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cost** | infinitive | Bad April jokes *not said here* | something | people | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme people=Beneficiary something=Value | 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: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): no change. **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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/13/) - next →: [April Fools' Day, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/)