The magician's trick explained, sentence 6
The heart of most tricks is misdirection — making you look one way while the secret happens somewhere else.
Who acts: heart, misdirection, you, secret · What happens: be, make, look, happen · To what, where: misdirection, one way
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 (heart, misdirection, you, secret), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 heart | det |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 misdirection | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 tricks | case |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 tricks | amod |
| 5 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 heart | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 misdirection | cop |
| 7 | misdirection | misdirection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 making | punct |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 misdirection | acl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 look | nsubj |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 making | xcomp |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 way | nummod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 happens | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 secret | det |
| 16 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 happens | nsubj |
| 17 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 look | advcl |
| 18 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 happens | advmod |
| 19 | else | else | ADV | _ | 18 somewhere | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 misdirection | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the heart of most tricks | misdirection | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | misdirection not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | you | one way | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | happen | present | the secret | somewhere property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:6.
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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