The magician's trick explained, sentence 34
Fairground games are set up so the stall makes money; most people lose, and prizes are often worth less than a go.
Who acts: stall, most people, prizes · What happens: set up, make, lose, be · To what, where: Fairground games, 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: who acts (stall, most people, prizes), 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 | Fairground | fairground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 games | compound |
| 2 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux:pass |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 makes | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stall | det |
| 8 | stall | stall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | advcl |
| 10 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 lose | punct |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lose | nsubj |
| 14 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 makes | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 worth | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 worth | cc |
| 17 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 worth | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 worth | cop |
| 19 | often | often | ADV | _ | 20 worth | advmod |
| 20 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | conj |
| 21 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 worth | obj |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 less | fixed |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 go | det |
| 24 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 less | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | present · passive | Fairground games | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | make | present | the stall | money | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product | ||||
| 3 | lose | present | most people | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | prizes | often, worth property | tree rules |
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:34.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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