The magician's trick explained, sentence 10
Mia then spotted the same idea in shops, which put the things they want you to choose right at eye level.
Who acts: Mia, same idea, things, you · What happens: spot, put, want, choose · To what, where: same idea, things, you, eye level
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 (Mia, same idea, things, you), 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 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spotted | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | _ | 3 spotted | advmod |
| 3 | spotted | spot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 idea | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 idea | amod |
| 6 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spotted | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 shops | case |
| 8 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spotted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 idea | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 things | det |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 want | nsubj |
| 15 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 things | acl:relcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 want | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 choose | mark |
| 18 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 want | xcomp |
| 19 | right | right | ADV | _ | 22 level | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 level | case |
| 21 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 level | compound |
| 22 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 choose | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spotted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | past | Mia | the same idea | then | in shops | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent idea=Destination in shop=Theme | ||
| 2 | put | past | the same idea | the things | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal | ||||
| 3 | want | present | things = thing | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | choose not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | eye level | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=Theme |
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:10.
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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