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title: Companies often use 1 April for joke products or news, which also ge… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics
description: Companies often use 1 April for joke products or news, which also gets them attention. Who acts: Companies, news. 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.
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# April Fools' Day, sentence 22

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Companies often use 1 April for joke products or news, which also gets them attention.

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**Who acts:** Companies, news · **What happens:** use, get · **To what, where:** Companies

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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 (Companies, news), 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:22
# text = Companies often use 1 April for joke products or news, which also gets them attention.
# 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	Companies	company	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	products	product	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Companies |  |  |  | april | for joke products or news; often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | news | Companies *= company* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary attention=Theme |

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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.

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**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:22`.

**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/).

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