April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 10
Stage illusions like «sawing a person in half» use special boxes, mirrors and hidden helpers; nobody is hurt.
Who acts: Stage illusions · What happens: saw, use, hurt · To what, where: person, half, special boxes, nobody
This is a sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work» 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 (Stage illusions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 illusions | compound |
| 2 | illusions | illusion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 use | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 sawing | mark |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 sawing | punct |
| 5 | sawing | saw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 illusions | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sawing | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 half | case |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sawing | obl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 sawing | punct |
| 11 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 hurt | parataxis |
| 12 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boxes | amod |
| 13 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 use | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mirrors | punct |
| 15 | mirrors | mirror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 boxes | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 helpers | cc |
| 17 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 helpers | amod |
| 18 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 boxes | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 hurt | punct |
| 20 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 hurt | aux:pass |
| 22 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | saw in a quote | gerund | Stage illusions not said here | a person | half | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | |||
| 2 | use | infinitive | Stage illusions | special boxes and mirrors and hidden helpers | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hurt | present · passive | nobody | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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, 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:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks.lesson:10.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.
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