--- title: Mind-reading acts use clues and guesses; no one has shown real mind-… — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics description: Mind-reading acts use clues and guesses; no one has shown real mind-reading in fair scientific tests. Who acts: reading acts, one. 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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 (reading acts, one), 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:25 # text = Mind-reading acts use clues and guesses; no one has shown real mind-reading in fair scientific tests. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 acts act NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 clues clue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 guesses guess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 11 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 14 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 15 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 scientific scientific ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | reading acts | clues and guesses | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Patient | | 2 | **show** | present · perfect | no one | real mind reading | | | | in fair scientific tests | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent reading=Patient in test=Topic | 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:25`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/23/) - next →: [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/)