--- title: In 1957 a BBC television programme showed Swiss farmers picking spag… — April Fools' Day · tree and pragmatics description: In 1957 a BBC television programme showed Swiss farmers picking spaghetti from trees, and many viewers believed it; people rang to ask how to grow their own spaghetti tree. Who acts: BBC television programme, Swiss farmers, many viewers, people. 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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 (BBC television programme, Swiss farmers, many viewers, 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:5 # text = In 1957 a BBC television programme showed Swiss farmers picking spaghetti from trees, and many viewers believed it; people rang to ask how to grow their own spaghetti tree. # 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 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1957 1957 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 BBC BBC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 television television NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 programme programme NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Swiss Swiss ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 picking pick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 spaghetti spaghetti NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 viewers viewer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:xcomp 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 29 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 spaghetti spaghetti NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 31 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | a BBC television programme | Swiss farmers | | | | in 1957 | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent farmer=Patient in 1957=Topic | | 2 | **pick** | gerund | Swiss farmers *not said here* | spaghetti | | trees | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent spaghetti=Theme from tree=Source | | 3 | **believe** | past | many viewers | spaghetti | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **ring** | past | people | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **grow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | people's own spaghetti tree | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=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:5`. **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. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/4/) - next →: [April Fools' Day, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/440-april-fools-day/)