--- title: At a fair in Texas, the hoop-toss hoops were just barely too small f… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: At a fair in Texas, the hoop-toss hoops were just barely too small for the bottle necks; Kai's dad said «They're set up so most folks miss.» Next time, Kai watched for five minutes first — nobody won. Who acts: toss hoops, dad, most folks, Kai. 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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 (toss hoops, dad, most folks, Kai), 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:18 # text = At a fair in Texas, the hoop-toss hoops were just barely too small for the bottle necks; Kai's dad said «They're set up so most folks miss.» Next time, Kai watched for five minutes first — nobody won. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 3 fair fair NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 hoop hoop NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ _ 10 toss toss NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 hoops hoop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 12 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 just just ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 barely barely ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 too too ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 27 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 ccomp _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 so so SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 amod _ _ 33 folks folk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 miss miss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 37 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 44 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 45 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 41 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:advmod 46 — - PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 47 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 48 nsubj _ _ 48 won won VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:conj 49 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the toss hoops | | | a fair in Texas | | for the bottle necks; barely, small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kai's dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **set up** *in a quote* | present · passive | | hoops *= hoop* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | | 4 | **miss** *in a quote* | present | most folks | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **watch** | past | Kai | | | | minute; time | first *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **won** | past | nobody | | | | | | tree rules | 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:18`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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: [The magician's trick explained, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/17/) - next →: [The magician's trick explained, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/)