April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 23
Magicians traditionally keep their secrets, so keeping your trick's secret is fine and not a lie.
Who acts: Magicians, keeping, your · What happens: keep, be, trick · To what, where: secrets, secret
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 (Magicians, keeping, your), 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 | Magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | traditionally | traditionally | ADV | _ | 3 keep | advmod |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 secrets | nmod:poss |
| 5 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 keep | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fine | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 fine | advmod |
| 8 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 fine | csubj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 trick | nmod:poss |
| 10 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 secret | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 trick | case |
| 12 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeping | obj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fine | cop |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 keep | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lie | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 lie | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lie | det |
| 18 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fine | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Magicians | people's secrets | traditionally property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | gerund | your trick's secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | keeping | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | trick | your | nom trick «act transitive»: 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:23.
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 ×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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