The magician's trick explained, sentence 20
A buck's worth of plastic for five bucks,» Dad laughed.
Who acts: Dad · What happens: laugh
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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 buck | det |
| 2 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 buck | case |
| 4 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laughed | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 plastic | case |
| 6 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worth | nmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 bucks | case |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 bucks | nummod |
| 9 | bucks | buck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 worth | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughed | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughed | punct |
| 12 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 laughed | nsubj |
| 13 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh in a quote | past | Dad | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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:20.
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 ×1, 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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