--- title: Joke messages about free prizes can make people travel or spend for… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: Joke messages about free prizes can make people travel or spend for nothing, just like a scam. Who acts: Joke messages, people. 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/27/) [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/) / 27 # April Fools' Day, sentence 27 Joke messages about free prizes can make people travel or spend for nothing, just like a scam. **Who acts:** Joke messages, people · **What happens:** make, travel, spend · **To what, where:** people 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 (Joke messages, people), 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:27 # text = Joke messages about free prizes can make people travel or spend for nothing, just like a scam. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 prizes prize NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 spend spend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 just just ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 scam scam NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can | Joke messages about free prizes | people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **travel** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **spend** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | for nothing | vn pay-68 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for nothing=Theme | 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:27`. **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): R6-punct-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, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/26/) - next →: [April Fools' Day, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/)