--- title: On 1 April, double-check surprising news before believing or sharing… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: On 1 April, double-check surprising news before believing or sharing it. Who acts: you. 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/28/) [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/) / 28 # April Fools' Day, sentence 28 On 1 April, double-check surprising news before believing or sharing it. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** check, believe, share · **To what, where:** surprising news, 1, news 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), 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:28 # text = On 1 April, double-check surprising news before believing or sharing 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): no change 1 On on ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 3 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 double double ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 surprising surprising ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 before before SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 believing believe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 sharing share VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 . . 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 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | surprising news | | 1 April | | double *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | | 2 | **believe** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **share** | gerund | you *not said here* | news | | | | | tree rules | 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:28`. **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/). - ← previous: [April Fools' Day, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/27/) - next →: [April Fools' Day, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/)