The magician's trick explained, sentence 27
A con artist — someone who tricks people to take their money — doesn't.
What happens: trick, take · To what, where: people, money
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: 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 | 3 artist | det |
| 2 | con | con | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 artist | compound |
| 3 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 does | nsubj |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 someone | punct |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 artist | appos |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 tricks | nsubj |
| 7 | tricks | trick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 someone | acl:relcl |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tricks | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tricks | xcomp |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 money | nmod:poss |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 artist | punct |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 does | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 does | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | present | people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | People's money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
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:27.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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