--- title: Picture 1 April in a French playground: children sneak up behind the… — 14 juillet, poisson d'avril and other French days · tree and pragmatics description: Picture 1 April in a French playground: children sneak up behind their friends and stick paper fish on their backs, then shout "Poisson d'avril !" - April fish, the French April fool. Who acts: children. 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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 (children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:french:033-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days.lesson:2 # text = Picture 1 April in a French playground: children sneak up behind their friends and stick paper fish on their backs, then shout "Poisson d'avril !" - April fish, the French April fool. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = french # lesson = 033-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 flat _ _ 3 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sneak sneak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 behind behind ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 stick stick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 backs back NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 24 shout shout VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 26 Poisson Poisson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 d'avril d'avril NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 ! ! PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 30 - - PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 31 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:conj 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sneak up** | present | children | | | | | behind children's friends | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind friend=Trajectory | | 2 | **stick** | present | children *not said here* | paper fish | | children's backs | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme on back=Destination | | 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | | Poisson d'avril and April fish | | | then | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent d'avril=Topic | 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:french:033-14-juillet-poisson-d-avril-and-other-french-days.lesson:2`. **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): 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. 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