--- title: Fairground games are set up so the stall makes money; most people lo… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: Fairground games are set up so the stall makes money; most people lose, and prizes are often worth less than a go. Who acts: stall, most people, prizes. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stall, most people, prizes), 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:34 # text = Fairground games are set up so the stall makes money; most people lose, and prizes are often worth less than a go. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fairground fairground NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 so so SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 stall stall NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 prizes prize NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 often often ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 21 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 22 than than ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 go go NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 25 . . 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 | **set up** | present · passive | | Fairground games | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | | 2 | **make** | present | the stall | money | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product | | 3 | **lose** | present | most people | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | prizes | | | | | often, worth *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. 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