April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 7
Sleight of hand is quick, practised hand movement you don't notice; misdirection steers your attention away from the secret move.
Who acts: Sleight, you, misdirection, your · What happens: be, practise, not notice, steer, attend · To what, where: practised hand movement, 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 (Sleight, you, misdirection, 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 | Sleight | sleight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quick | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sleight | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quick | cop |
| 5 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 practised | punct |
| 7 | practised | practise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 movement | amod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 movement | compound |
| 9 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quick | conj |
| 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 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 notice | advmod |
| 13 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 movement | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 steers | punct |
| 15 | misdirection | misdirection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 steers | nsubj |
| 16 | steers | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quick | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 attention | nmod:poss |
| 18 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 steers | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 steers | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 move | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 move | det |
| 22 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 move | amod |
| 23 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 away | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sleight of hand | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | practise | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not notice | present · do-support | you | practised hand movement not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | steer | present | misdirection | your attention | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | |||
| 5 | attend | your | 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:7.
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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