April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 8
Example: a magician says «Look at this hand!» while the other hand slips a coin into a pocket.
Who acts: magician, other hand · What happens: say, look, slip · To what, where: coin, pocket · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (magician, other hand), 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 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 magician | det |
| 4 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Example | appos |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 Look | punct |
| 7 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 hand | det |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Look | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Look | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 Look | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 slips | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hand | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hand | amod |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slips | nsubj |
| 17 | slips | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 coin | det |
| 19 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slips | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 pocket | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 pocket | det |
| 22 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slips | obl | ||
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | a magician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | at this hand | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hand=Theme | |||||
| 3 | slip | present | the other hand | a coin | a pocket | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent coin=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:8.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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