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title: The jackalope is a made-up animal, a rabbit with antlers, from Ameri… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics
description: The jackalope is a made-up animal, a rabbit with antlers, from American folk tales. Who acts: jackalope. 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 29

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The jackalope is a made-up animal, a rabbit with antlers, from American folk tales.

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**Who acts:** jackalope · **What happens:** make up, be · **To what, where:** made animal, American folk tales

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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 (jackalope), 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:29
# text = The jackalope is a made-up animal, a rabbit with antlers, from American folk tales.
# 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jackalope	jackalope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
8	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the jackalope | a made animal |  | American folk tales |  |  | tree rules |

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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:29`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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