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title: The heart of most tricks is misdirection — making you look one way w… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics
description: The heart of most tricks is misdirection — making you look one way while the secret happens somewhere else. Who acts: heart, misdirection, you, secret. 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 pragmatic
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# The magician's trick explained, sentence 6

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The heart of most tricks is misdirection — making you look one way while the secret happens somewhere else.

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**Who acts:** heart, misdirection, you, secret · **What happens:** be, make, look, happen · **To what, where:** misdirection, one way

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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 (heart, misdirection, you, secret), 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:6
# text = The heart of most tricks is misdirection — making you look one way while the secret happens somewhere else.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	misdirection	misdirection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
19	else	else	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | the heart of most tricks | misdirection |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | misdirection *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | you | one way |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **happen** | present | the secret |  |  |  |  | somewhere *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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 ×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.

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