The magician's trick explained, sentence 21
Leo watched a video of a man floating in the air twenty times; his sister said «It's camera angles and a hidden stand, mate.» A fortune teller told Aisha's aunt «You've had a difficult time recently, but someone close is thinking of you.» Aisha's mum said «That's true of everyone, love.»
Who acts: Leo, man, sister, video, fortune teller, aunt · What happens: watch, float, say, be, tell, have · To what, where: video, air, camera angles, aunt · 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 (Leo, man, sister, video), 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 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 video | det |
| 4 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 video | nmod |
| 8 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 man | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 floating | obl |
| 12 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 floating | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sister | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | parataxis |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 22 angles | punct |
| 19 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 angles | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 angles | cop |
| 21 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 angles | compound |
| 22 | angles | angle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stand | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 stand | det |
| 25 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stand | amod |
| 26 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 angles | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mate | punct |
| 28 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 angles | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 angles | punct |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
| 31 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 teller | det |
| 32 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 teller | compound |
| 33 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 told | nsubj |
| 34 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 35 | Aisha | Aisha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 Aisha | case |
| 37 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 told | iobj |
| 38 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 34 told | punct |
| 39 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 had | nsubj |
| 40 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 had | aux |
| 41 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 told | ccomp |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 time | det |
| 43 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 time | amod |
| 44 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 had | obj |
| 45 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 41 had | advmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 thinking | punct |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 thinking | cc |
| 48 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 51 thinking | nsubj |
| 49 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 thinking | nsubj |
| 50 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 thinking | aux |
| 51 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 had | conj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 you | case |
| 53 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 thinking | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 51 thinking | punct |
| 55 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 59 said | punct |
| 56 | Aisha | Aisha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 mum | nmod:poss |
| 57 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 56 Aisha | case |
| 58 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 said | nsubj |
| 59 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | parataxis |
| 60 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 59 said | punct |
| 61 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 63 true | nsubj |
| 62 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 63 true | cop |
| 63 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 said | ccomp |
| 64 | of | of | ADP | _ | 65 everyone | case |
| 65 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 63 true | obl |
| 66 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 love | punct |
| 67 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 everyone | conj |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
| 69 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | Leo | a video of a man | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent video=Theme | ||||
| 2 | float | gerund | a man not said here | the air | time | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Leo's sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | video | camera angles and a hidden stand and mate | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | a fortune teller | Aisha's aunt | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent aunt=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present · perfect | Aisha's aunt = aunt | time | recently property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 7 | think speech: other in a quote | present · progressive | someone | of Aisha's aunt = aunt | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | past | Aisha's mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is in a quote | present | That | of everyone; true property | 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:21.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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