The magician's trick explained, sentence 37
Fortune tellers often say things that fit almost anyone, and listeners fill in the details themselves.
Who acts: Fortune tellers, things, listeners · What happens: say, fit, fill in · To what, where: things, anyone, details · 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 (Fortune tellers, things, listeners), 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 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tellers | compound |
| 2 | tellers | teller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 say | advmod |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fit | nsubj |
| 7 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 things | acl:relcl |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 9 anyone | advmod |
| 9 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 fit | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fill | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fill | cc |
| 12 | listeners | listener | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fill | nsubj |
| 13 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fill | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 details | det |
| 16 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fill | obj |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 fill | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Fortune tellers | things | often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | |||
| 2 | fit | present | things | anyone | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fill in | present | listeners | the details | 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:37.
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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