--- title: Stage illusions like «sawing a person in half» use special boxes, mi… — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics description: Stage illusions like «sawing a person in half» use special boxes, mirrors and hidden helpers; nobody is hurt. Who acts: Stage illusions. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stage illusions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks.lesson:10 # text = Stage illusions like «sawing a person in half» use special boxes, mirrors and hidden helpers; nobody is hurt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 illusions illusion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:case 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 5 sawing saw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nmod 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 11 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ _ 12 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 boxes box NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 mirrors mirror NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 helpers helper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **saw** *in a quote* | gerund | Stage illusions *not said here* | a person | | half | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | | 2 | **use** | infinitive | Stage illusions | special boxes and mirrors and hidden helpers | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient | | 3 | **hurt** | present · passive | | nobody | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks.lesson:10`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/9/) - next →: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/)