--- title: In Britain and Ireland tradition says April Fools' tricks should sto… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: In Britain and Ireland tradition says April Fools' tricks should stop at midday, and someone who plays one after noon is the fool. Who acts: tradition, tricks, someone, April Fools. A sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # April Fools' Day, sentence 20 In Britain and Ireland tradition says April Fools' tricks should stop at midday, and someone who plays one after noon is the fool. **Who acts:** tradition, tricks, someone, April Fools · **What happens:** say, stop, play, be, trick · **To what, where:** Britain, midday, one, fool · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (tradition, tricks, someone, April Fools), 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:20 # text = In Britain and Ireland tradition says April Fools' tricks should stop at midday, and someone who plays one after noon is the fool. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 tradition tradition NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Fools fool PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 ' 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 17 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 nsubj _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 obj _ _ 21 after after ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | tradition | | | Britain and Ireland | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stop** | should | April Fools's tricks | | | midday | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at midday=Location | | 3 | **play** | present | | one | | | noon | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | someone | the fool | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **trick** | | April Fools | | | | | | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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:20`. **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): R8-pos-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, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/19/) - next →: [April Fools' Day, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/)