--- title: A good April joke is silly, not scary, and is revealed quickly. — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: A good April joke is silly, not scary, and is revealed quickly. Who acts: good April joke. 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/23/) [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/) / 23 # April Fools' Day, sentence 23 A good April joke is silly, not scary, and is revealed quickly. **Who acts:** good April joke · **What happens:** be, not be, reveal 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 (good April joke), 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:23 # text = A good April joke is silly, not scary, and is revealed quickly. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 revealed reveal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 14 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a good April joke | | | | | silly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **be** | | a good April joke *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **reveal** | present · passive | a good April joke *not said here* | | | | | quickly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP» | 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:23`. **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): 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, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/22/) - next →: [April Fools' Day, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/)