The magician's trick explained, sentence 32
In street betting games with cups and a ball, the «winners» are often the trickster's helpers, and ordinary players lose.
Who acts: winners, ordinary players · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: helpers, betting games
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 (winners, ordinary players), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 games | case |
| 2 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 betting | compound |
| 3 | betting | betting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 games | compound |
| 4 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lose | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cups | case |
| 6 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 games | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ball | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ball | det |
| 9 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cups | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 winners | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 winners | det |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 winners | punct |
| 13 | winners | winner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 helpers | nsubj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 winners | punct |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 helpers | cop |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 helpers | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 trickster | det |
| 18 | trickster | trickster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 helpers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 trickster | case |
| 20 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lose | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lose | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lose | cc |
| 23 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 players | amod |
| 24 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lose | nsubj |
| 25 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 lose | 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 | the winners | the trickster's helpers | often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose | present | ordinary players | betting games with cups and a ball | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in game=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.
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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): R6-punct-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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