April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 21
Misdirection means steering people's attention away from the secret move.
Who acts: Misdirection, people · What happens: mean, steer, attend · To what, where: attention
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 (Misdirection, people), 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 | Misdirection | misdirection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | steering | steer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | xcomp |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 attention | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 people | case |
| 6 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 steering | obj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 steering | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 move | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 move | det |
| 10 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 move | amod |
| 11 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 away | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
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 | mean | present | Misdirection | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | steer not said to happen | gerund | Misdirection not said here | people's attention | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | |||
| 3 | attend | people | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:21.
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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