--- title: «Folks» (US) means people; «a buck» (US) is a dollar; «nah, I'm good… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: «Folks» (US) means people; «a buck» (US) is a dollar; «nah, I'm good» means no, thank you. Who acts: Folks, buck, good. 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. --- [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/40/) [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/) / 40 # The magician's trick explained, sentence 40 «Folks» (US) means people; «a buck» (US) is a dollar; «nah, I'm good» means no, thank you. **Who acts:** Folks, buck, good · **What happens:** mean, be, thank · **To what, where:** people, dollar, you 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 (Folks, buck, good), 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:40 # text = «Folks» (US) means people; «a buck» (US) is a dollar; «nah, I'm good» means no, thank you. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Folks folk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 5 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 buck buck NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 15 US US PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 dollar dollar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 22 nah nah INTJ UH _ 26 discourse _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 31 discourse _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 thank thank VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Folks | people | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | buck | a dollar | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | good | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* | present | good *not said here* | | you | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:40`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [The magician's trick explained, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/39/) - next →: [Stories that change, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/449-stories-that-change/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/)