The magician's trick explained, sentence 12
In a big city, Jake's family watched a man with three cups and a ball.
Who acts: family · What happens: watch · To what, where: man, big city
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 (family), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 city | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 city | amod |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watched | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 city | punct |
| 6 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Jake | case |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watched | nsubj |
| 9 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 watched | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 cups | case |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 cups | nummod |
| 14 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 man | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ball | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ball | det |
| 17 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cups | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Jake's family | a man | a big city | with three cups and a ball | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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:12.
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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