--- title: Jake's dad said those winners were the man's friends, pretending, so… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: Jake's dad said those winners were the man's friends, pretending, so others would join in — and a tourist lost a lot of money while they watched. Who acts: dad, winners, others, tourist. 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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 (dad, winners, others, tourist), 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:14 # text = Jake's dad said those winners were the man's friends, pretending, so others would join in — and a tourist lost a lot of money while they watched. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 winners winner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 19 in in ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 — - PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 tourist tourist NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 32 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jake's dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | that winners | the man's friends | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pretend** | gerund | Jake's dad *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **join in** | would | others | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **lose** | past | a tourist | a lot of money | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality | | 6 | **watch** | past | others *= other* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/13/) - next →: [The magician's trick explained, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/)