The magician's trick explained, sentence 40

«Folks» (US) means people; «a buck» (US) is a dollar; «nah, I'm good» means no, thank you.

Who acts: Folks, buck, good · What happens: mean, be, thank · To what, where: people, dollar, you

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 (Folks, buck, good), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Folks	punct
2	Folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 means	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Folks	punct
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 US	punct
5	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Folks	appos
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 US	punct
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 means	conj
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 means	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 dollar	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 buck	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 »	det
12	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dollar	nsubj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 buck	punct
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 US	punct
15	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 buck	appos
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 US	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 dollar	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 dollar	det
19	dollar	dollar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 means	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 good	punct
22	nah	nah	INTJ	_	26 good	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nah	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 good	nsubj
25	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 »	cop
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 means	nsubj
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 good	punct
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	31 thank	discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 thank	punct
31	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 means	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 thank	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mean	present	Folks	people		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic
2	is a	present	buck	a dollar		tree rules
3	mean	present	good			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	thank speech: thank	present	good not said here		you	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:40.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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