--- title: Fortune tellers often say things that fit almost anyone, and listene… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: Fortune tellers often say things that fit almost anyone, and listeners fill in the details themselves. Who acts: Fortune tellers, things, listeners. 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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 (Fortune tellers, things, listeners), 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:37 # text = Fortune tellers often say things that fit almost anyone, and listeners fill in the details themselves. # 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 Fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 tellers teller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 almost almost ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 listeners listener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 fill fill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl 17 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obj _ _ 18 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Fortune tellers | things | | | | often *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **fit** | present | things | anyone | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient | | 3 | **fill in** | present | listeners | the details | | | | | 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:37`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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, 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/36/) - next →: [The magician's trick explained, 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/38/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/)