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title: «So it's not magic, it's practice!» said Owen, delighted. — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics
description: «So it's not magic, it's practice!» said Owen, delighted. Who acts: coin, Owen. 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.
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# The magician's trick explained, sentence 3

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«So it's not magic, it's practice!» said Owen, delighted.

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**Who acts:** coin, Owen · **What happens:** not be, be, say · **To what, where:** practice · **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 (coin, Owen), 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:3
# text = «So it's not magic, it's practice!» said Owen, delighted.
# 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 ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## 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 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | coin |  |  |  |  | magic *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | coin | practice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Owen |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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**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:3`.

**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 ×2. **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/).

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