April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 20
Sleight of hand means quick, practised hand movements you do not notice.
Who acts: Sleight, you · What happens: mean, practise, not notice · To what, where: quick practised hand movements
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 (Sleight, you), 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 | Sleight | sleight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 means | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sleight | nmod |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 movements | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
| 7 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 movements | amod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 movements | compound |
| 9 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 means | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 notice | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 notice | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 notice | advmod |
| 13 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 movements | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Sleight of hand | quick practised hand movements | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Topic | ||||
| 2 | practise | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not notice | present · do-support | you | quick practised hand movements not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus |
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:20.
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): no change. 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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