---
title: A con artist — someone who tricks people to take their money — doesn… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics
description: A con artist — someone who tricks people to take their money — doesn't. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[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/27/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 27

# The magician's trick explained, sentence 27

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A con artist — someone who tricks people to take their money — doesn't.

<!-- .vintro -->
**What happens:** trick, take · **To what, where:** people, money

<!-- .vabout -->
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: 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:27
# text = A con artist — someone who tricks people to take their money — doesn't.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	con	con	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tricks	trick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
15	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | present |  | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | People's money |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:27`.

**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, 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The magician's trick explained, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/26/)
- next →: [The magician's trick explained, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/28/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/)