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title: Some tricks, like a grandad's «disappearing thumb», are loving games… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics
description: Some tricks, like a grandad's «disappearing thumb», are loving games for small children. Who acts: tricks. 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 39

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Some tricks, like a grandad's «disappearing thumb», are loving games for small children.

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**Who acts:** tricks · **What happens:** disappear, be · **To what, where:** loving games

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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 (tricks), 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:39
# text = Some tricks, like a grandad's «disappearing thumb», are loving games for small children.
# 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 ×4
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl
10	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:compound
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **disappear** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | some tricks  disappearing thumb | loving games |  |  |  | for small children | tree rules |

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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:39`.

**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 ×4. **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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