The magician's trick explained, sentence 18
At a fair in Texas, the hoop-toss hoops were just barely too small for the bottle necks; Kai's dad said «They're set up so most folks miss.» Next time, Kai watched for five minutes first — nobody won.
Who acts: toss hoops, dad, most folks, Kai, nobody · What happens: be, say, set up, miss, watch, won · To what, where: fair, hoops · 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 (toss hoops, dad, most folks, Kai), 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 | _ | 3 fair | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fair | det |
| 3 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 small | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Texas | case |
| 5 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fair | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 small | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hoops | det |
| 8 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 toss | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 hoop | punct |
| 10 | toss | toss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hoops | compound |
| 11 | hoops | hoop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 small | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 small | cop |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 small | advmod |
| 14 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 16 small | advmod |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 small | advmod |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 necks | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 necks | det |
| 19 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 necks | compound |
| 20 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 small | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 22 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 dad | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Kai | case |
| 24 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 small | parataxis |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 29 set | punct |
| 27 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 set | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 set | aux:pass |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 said | ccomp |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 set | compound:prt |
| 31 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 34 miss | mark |
| 32 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 folks | amod |
| 33 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 miss | nsubj |
| 34 | miss | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 set | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 small | punct |
| 36 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 small | punct |
| 37 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 time | amod |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 watched | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 time | punct |
| 40 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 watched | nsubj |
| 41 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 small | parataxis |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 minutes | case |
| 43 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 minutes | nummod |
| 44 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 watched | obl |
| 45 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 41 watched | advmod |
| 46 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 won | punct |
| 47 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 48 won | nsubj |
| 48 | won | won | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 watched | parataxis |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 small | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the toss hoops | a fair in Texas | for the bottle necks; barely, small property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kai's dad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | set up in a quote | present · passive | hoops = hoop | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 4 | miss in a quote | present | most folks | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | watch | past | Kai | minute; time | first property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | won | past | nobody | tree rules |
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:18.
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, R7-rel-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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