The magician's trick explained, sentence 29
A con is a trick that takes something from people who did not agree to be fooled.
Who acts: con, trick, people · What happens: be, take, not agree, fool · To what, where: trick, something
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 (con, trick, people), 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 con | det |
| 2 | con | con | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trick | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trick | det |
| 5 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 takes | nsubj |
| 7 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trick | acl:relcl |
| 8 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 takes | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 takes | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 agree | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 agree | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 agree | advmod |
| 14 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 people | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fooled | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fooled | aux:pass |
| 17 | fooled | fool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 agree | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a con | a trick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present | a trick | something | from people | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme from people=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | not agree speech: agree | past · do-support | people | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fool not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | people not said here | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» |
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:29.
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.
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