The magician's trick explained, sentence 3
«So it's not magic, it's practice!» said Owen, delighted.
Who acts: coin, Owen · What happens: not be, be, say · To what, where: practice · 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 (coin, Owen), 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 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 magic | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 magic | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 magic | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 magic | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 magic | advmod |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 practice | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 practice | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 practice | cop |
| 10 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 magic | parataxis |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 magic | punct |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 magic | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Owen | punct |
| 16 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | coin | magic property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | coin | practice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Owen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:3.
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 ×2. 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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