--- title: Before a joke, ask yourself: will anyone be sad or hurt? — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: Before a joke, ask yourself: will anyone be sad or hurt? Who acts: you, anyone. 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/25/) [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/) / 25 # April Fools' Day, sentence 25 Before a joke, ask yourself: will anyone be sad or hurt? **Who acts:** you, anyone · **What happens:** ask, be, hurt · **To what, where:** yourself · **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 (you, anyone), 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:25 # text = Before a joke, ask yourself: will anyone be sad or hurt? # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 9 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 cop _ _ 11 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=q | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | imperative | you *not said here* | yourself | | | before a joke | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | future | anyone | | | | | sad *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hurt** | participle | anyone *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:25`. **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, 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, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/24/) - next →: [April Fools' Day, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/)