--- title: In 1957 the BBC programme Panorama showed a spoof film of spaghetti… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: In 1957 the BBC programme Panorama showed a spoof film of spaghetti growing on trees, and many viewers believed it. Who acts: BBC programme, spoof film, many viewers. A sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # April Fools' Day, sentence 21 In 1957 the BBC programme Panorama showed a spoof film of spaghetti growing on trees, and many viewers believed it. **Who acts:** BBC programme, spoof film, many viewers · **What happens:** show, grow, believe, film · **To what, where:** spoof film, trees, film, spaghetti 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 (BBC programme, spoof film, many viewers), 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:21 # text = In 1957 the BBC programme Panorama showed a spoof film of spaghetti growing on trees, and many viewers believed it. # 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 ×4 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1957 1957 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 4 BBC BBC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 5 programme programme NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 6 Panorama panorama PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 spoof spoof NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 film film NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 spaghetti spaghetti NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 viewers viewer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | the BBC programme | a spoof film of spaghetti | | | | in 1957 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent film=Patient in 1957=Topic | | 2 | **grow** | gerund | a spoof film of spaghetti *not said here* | | | trees | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | | 3 | **believe** | past | many viewers | film | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **film** | | | spaghetti | | | | | nom film «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:21`. **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 ×4. **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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/20/) - next →: [April Fools' Day, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/)