The magician's trick explained, sentence 8

«I'm a professional liar,» he said, «but I tell you I'm lying.» He showed how a big movement with one hand pulls every eye, while the other hand does the quiet work.

Who acts: secret, big movement, other hand · What happens: be, say, tell, lie, show, pull · To what, where: professional liar, you, eye, quiet work · 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 (secret, big movement, other hand), 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	_	6 liar	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 liar	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 liar	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 liar	det
5	professional	professional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 liar	amod
6	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 liar	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 liar	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 tell	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 tell	nsubj
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 tell	iobj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 lying	nsubj
18	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lying	aux
19	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 tell	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
22	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 showed	nsubj
23	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 pulls	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 movement	det
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 movement	amod
27	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pulls	nsubj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 hand	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 hand	nummod
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 movement	nmod
31	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 showed	ccomp
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 eye	det
33	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pulls	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pulls	punct
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	39 does	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hand	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hand	amod
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 does	nsubj
39	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 pulls	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 work	det
41	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 work	amod
42	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 does	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	secret	a professional liar		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	secret			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	secret		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	lie in a quote	present · progressive	secret			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	show	past	secret			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	pull	present	a big movement with one hand	every eye		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
7	do	present	the other hand	the quiet work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

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:8.

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 ×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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