The magician's trick explained, sentence 14

Jake's dad said those winners were the man's friends, pretending, so others would join in — and a tourist lost a lot of money while they watched.

Who acts: dad, winners, others, tourist · What happens: say, be, pretend, join in, lose, watch · To what, where: friends, lot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (dad, winners, others, tourist), 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	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jake	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 winners	det
6	winners	winner	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 friends	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 friends	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 friends	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pretending	punct
13	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 join	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 join	advmod
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 join	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 join	aux
18	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pretending	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	18 join	compound:prt
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lost	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tourist	det
23	tourist	tourist	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lost	nsubj
24	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pretending	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 lot	det
26	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lost	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 money	case
28	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lot	nmod
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 watched	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 watched	nsubj
31	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lost	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jake's dad		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	that winners	the man's friends	tree rules
3	pretend	gerund	Jake's dad not said here		tree rules
4	join in	would	others		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	lose	past	a tourist	a lot of money	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality
6	watch	past	others = other		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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:448-the-magicians-trick-explained.lesson:14.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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