The magician's trick explained, sentence 24
At six he saw the thumb was just folded — and now he does it for his baby cousin.
Who acts: teller · What happens: see, fold, do · To what, where: six, thumb · 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 (teller), 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 | _ | 2 six | case |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 saw | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thumb | det |
| 6 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 folded | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 folded | aux:pass |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 folded | advmod |
| 9 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 does | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 does | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 does | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 does | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 does | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 cousin | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 18 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cousin | compound |
| 19 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 does | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | teller | six | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fold | past · passive | the thumb | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | do | present | teller | thumb | now | for teller's baby cousin | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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:24.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/24/