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description: Mia then spotted the same idea in shops, which put the things they want you to choose right at eye level. Who acts: Mia, same idea, things, you. A sentence of the lesson «The magician's trick explained» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The magician's trick explained, sentence 10

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Mia then spotted the same idea in shops, which put the things they want you to choose right at eye level.

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**Who acts:** Mia, same idea, things, you · **What happens:** spot, put, want, choose · **To what, where:** same idea, things, you, eye level

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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 (Mia, same idea, things, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained.lesson:10
# text = Mia then spotted the same idea in shops, which put the things they want you to choose right at eye level.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 448-the-magicians-trick-explained.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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	spotted	spot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	right	right	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spot** | past | Mia | the same idea |  |  | then | in shops | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent idea=Destination in shop=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | past | the same idea | the things |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal |
| 3 | **want** | present | things *= thing* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **choose** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | eye level |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=Theme |

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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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**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.

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