The magician's trick explained, sentence 39

Some tricks, like a grandad's «disappearing thumb», are loving games for small children.

Who acts: tricks · What happens: disappear, be · To what, where: loving games

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), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 tricks	det
2	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 games	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 «	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 «	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grandad	det
6	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 «	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 grandad	case
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 thumb	punct
9	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 thumb	amod
10	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tricks	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 thumb	punct
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tricks	punct
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 games	cop
14	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 games	amod
15	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 children	case
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 children	amod
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 games	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 games	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear in a quote	gerund							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	some tricks disappearing thumb	loving games				for small children	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:39.

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 ×4. 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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