The magician's trick explained, sentence 36
Videos can be edited and filmed from one angle, so seeing something on a screen does not prove it is real.
Who acts: seeing, video · What happens: edit, film, see, not prove, be · To what, where: Videos, one angle, something, screen
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 (seeing, video), 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 | Videos | video | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 edited | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 edited | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 edited | aux:pass |
| 4 | edited | edit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 filmed | cc |
| 6 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 edited | conj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 angle | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 angle | nummod |
| 9 | angle | angle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filmed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seeing | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 prove | advmod |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 prove | csubj |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 seeing | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 screen | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 screen | det |
| 16 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeing | obl |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 prove | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 prove | advmod |
| 19 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 edited | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 real | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 real | cop |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prove | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 edited | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | edit | can · passive | Videos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | film | participle | one angle | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | gerund | something | a screen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not prove | present · do-support | seeing | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | video | real 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:36.
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 ×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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