The magician's trick explained, sentence 0
At a birthday party in Leeds, a magician pulled a coin out of Owen's ear.
Who acts: magician · What happens: pull · To what, where: coin, birthday party
This is a sentence of the lesson «The magician's trick explained» 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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 party | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 party | det |
| 3 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 party | compound |
| 4 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulled | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Leeds | case |
| 6 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 party | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 party | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 magician | det |
| 9 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulled | nsubj |
| 10 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coin | det |
| 12 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulled | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 ear | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ear | case |
| 15 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ear | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Owen | case |
| 17 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | a magician | a coin | a birthday party in Leeds | out Owen's ear | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent coin=Theme out ear=Initial_Location |
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:448-the-magicians-trick-explained.lesson:0.
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): R8-pos-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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