--- title: Sleight of hand means quick, practised hand movements you do not not… — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics description: Sleight of hand means quick, practised hand movements you do not notice. Who acts: Sleight, you. A sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/) / 20 # April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 20 Sleight of hand means quick, practised hand movements you do not notice. **Who acts:** Sleight, you · **What happens:** mean, practise, not notice · **To what, where:** quick practised hand movements This is a sentence of the lesson «April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work» 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 (Sleight, you), 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:20 # text = Sleight of hand means quick, practised hand movements you do not notice. # 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): no change 1 Sleight sleight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 practised practise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 8 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 movements movement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 notice notice VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Sleight of hand | quick practised hand movements | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Topic | | 2 | **practise** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **notice** | present · do-support | you | quick practised hand movements *not said here* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus | 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:20`. **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): no change. **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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/19/) - next →: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/)