--- title: Leo watched a video of a man floating in the air twenty times; his s… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: Leo watched a video of a man floating in the air twenty times; his sister said «It's camera angles and a hidden stand, mate.» A fortune teller told Aisha's aunt «You've had a difficult time recently, but someone close is thinking of you.» Aisha's mum said «That's true of everyone, love.» Who acts: L --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # The magician's trick explained, sentence 21 Leo watched a video of a man floating in the air twenty times; his sister said «It's camera angles and a hidden stand, mate.» A fortune teller told Aisha's aunt «You've had a difficult time recently, but someone close is thinking of you.» Aisha's mum said «That's true of everyone, love.» **Who acts:** Leo, man, sister, video, fortune teller, aunt · **What happens:** watch, float, say, be, tell, have · **To what, where:** video, air, camera angles, aunt · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Leo, man, sister, video), 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:21 # text = Leo watched a video of a man floating in the air twenty times; his sister said «It's camera angles and a hidden stand, mate.» A fortune teller told Aisha's aunt «You've had a difficult time recently, but someone close is thinking of you.» Aisha's mum said «That's true of everyone, love.» # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 video video NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 19 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 camera camera NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 angles angle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 hidden hidden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 stand stand NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 29 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 31 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 teller teller NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 35 Aisha Aisha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 's 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 iobj _ _ 38 « « PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 39 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 ccomp _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 difficult difficult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 recently recently ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 47 but but CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 48 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 51 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:compound 49 close close NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 50 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 conj _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 51 obl _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 51 punct _ _ 55 » » PUNCT '' _ 59 punct _ _ 56 Aisha Aisha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 nmod:poss _ _ 57 's 's PART POS _ 56 case _ _ 58 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nsubj _ _ 59 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 60 « « PUNCT `` _ 59 punct _ _ 61 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 63 nsubj _ _ 62 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 63 cop _ _ 63 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 ccomp _ _ 64 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 63 obl _ _ 66 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 67 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 conj _ _ 68 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 69 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | past | Leo | a video of a man | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent video=Theme | | 2 | **float** | gerund | a man *not said here* | | | the air | time | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Leo's sister | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | video | camera angles and a hidden stand and mate | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a fortune teller | | Aisha's aunt | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent aunt=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Aisha's aunt *= aunt* | | | | time | recently *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · progressive | someone | | | | | of Aisha's aunt *= aunt* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Aisha's mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is** *in a quote* | present | That | | | | | of everyone; true *property* | 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:21`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/20/) - next →: [The magician's trick explained, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/)