--- title: People were betting and «winning». — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: People were betting and «winning». Who acts: People. 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 every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/13/) [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/) / [The magician's trick explained](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/) / 13 # The magician's trick explained, sentence 13 People were betting and «winning». **Who acts:** People · **What happens:** bet, win 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 (People), 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:13 # text = People were betting and «winning». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 betting bet VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 winning win VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 8 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bet** | past · progressive | People | | | | | | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **win** *in a quote* | gerund | People *not said here* | | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:448-the-magicians-trick-explained.lesson:13`. **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. **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: [The magician's trick explained, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/12/) - next →: [The magician's trick explained, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/)