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title: Magic tricks are not real magic but skill and practice. — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work · tree and pragmatics
description: Magic tricks are not real magic but skill and practice. Who acts: Magic tricks. 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.
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# April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work, sentence 6

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Magic tricks are not real magic but skill and practice.

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**Who acts:** Magic tricks · **What happens:** not be · **To what, where:** real magic

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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 (Magic tricks), 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:6
# text = Magic tricks are not real magic but skill and practice.
# 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	Magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Magic tricks | real magic but skill and practice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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: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): 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/).

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