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title: Afterwards the magician showed him: the coin had been in his hand th… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics
description: Afterwards the magician showed him: the coin had been in his hand the whole time, tucked between two fingers, while everyone watched his other hand waving. Who acts: magician, coin, everyone, other hand. A sentence of the lesson «The magician's trick explained» of the everyday course of Mova's prima
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# The magician's trick explained, sentence 2

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Afterwards the magician showed him: the coin had been in his hand the whole time, tucked between two fingers, while everyone watched his other hand waving.

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**Who acts:** magician, coin, everyone, other hand · **What happens:** show, be, tuck, watch, wave · **To what, where:** Owen, hand, whole time, two fingers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (magician, coin, everyone, other hand), 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:2
# text = Afterwards the magician showed him: the coin had been in his hand the whole time, tucked between two fingers, while everyone watched his other hand waving.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
25	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## 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 | **show** | past | the magician |  | Owen |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | the coin |  |  | Owen's hand | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tuck** | participle |  | the whole time *not said here* |  | two fingers |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent between finger=Destination |
| 4 | **watch** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wave** | gerund | Owen's other hand |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): 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.

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