The magician's trick explained, sentence 38
Knowing how tricks work helps you spot the same tricks in adverts, shops and scams.
Who acts: tricks, Knowing, you · What happens: know, work, help, spot · To what, where: you, same tricks · 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 (tricks, Knowing, you), 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 | Knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 helps | csubj |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 work | advmod |
| 3 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 work | nsubj |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Knowing | ccomp |
| 5 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 helps | obj |
| 7 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 helps | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tricks | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tricks | amod |
| 10 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spot | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 adverts | case |
| 12 | adverts | advert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tricks | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shops | punct |
| 14 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 adverts | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scams | cc |
| 16 | scams | scam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shops | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | work | present | tricks | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | help | present | Knowing | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spot | infinitive | you not said here | the same tricks | in adverts and shops and scams | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent trick=Destination in advert=Theme |
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:38.
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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