--- title: In Britain and Ireland an old rule says the tricks stop at midday: w… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: In Britain and Ireland an old rule says the tricks stop at midday: when Liam's friend tried one in the afternoon, Liam said «Too late — after noon, you're the fool!» Who acts: old rule, tricks, friend, Liam. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old rule, tricks, friend, Liam), 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:3 # text = In Britain and Ireland an old rule says the tricks stop at midday: when Liam's friend tried one in the afternoon, Liam said «Too late — after noon, you're the fool!» # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 midday midday NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 16 Liam Liam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 Liam Liam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 28 Too too ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 30 — - PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 31 after after ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 noon noon NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 35 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | present | a old rule | | | Britain and Ireland | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stop** | present | the tricks | | | midday | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at midday=Location | | 3 | **try** | past | Liam's friend | one | | | afternoon | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Liam | | | | | late *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | the fool | | | noon | | 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:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/1/) - next →: [April Fools' Day, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/)