--- title: Magic tricks are deception people agree to enjoy: everyone knows it'… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: Magic tricks are deception people agree to enjoy: everyone knows it's a trick, and everything is given back. Who acts: people, everyone, trick. 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 eve --- [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/28/) [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/) / 28 # The magician's trick explained, sentence 28 Magic tricks are deception people agree to enjoy: everyone knows it's a trick, and everything is given back. **Who acts:** people, everyone, trick · **What happens:** be, agree, enjoy, know, give back · **To what, where:** people, deception, trick, everything · **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 (people, everyone, trick), 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:28 # text = Magic tricks are deception people agree to enjoy: everyone knows it's a trick, and everything is given back. # 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 Magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 2 tricks trick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 deception deception NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 enjoy enjoy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 11 nsubj _ _ 11 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 . . 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 | **is a** | present | | people | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | people | deception *not said here* | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent deception=Co-Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **enjoy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **know** | present | everyone | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** | present | trick | a trick | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **give back** | present · passive | | everything | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:28`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The magician's trick explained, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/27/) - next →: [The magician's trick explained, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/)