The magician's trick explained, sentence 35
Watching a game before paying shows whether anyone ever wins.
Who acts: Watching, anyone · What happens: watch, pay, show, win · To what, where: game · 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 (Watching, anyone), 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 | Watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 shows | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watching | obj |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 paying | mark |
| 5 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Watching | advcl |
| 6 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 wins | mark |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 wins | nsubj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 wins | advmod |
| 10 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shows | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | a game | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pay | gerund | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | show | present | Watching | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | win | present | anyone | ever | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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:35.
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. 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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