--- title: «I'm a professional liar,» he said, «but I tell you I'm lying.» He s… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: «I'm a professional liar,» he said, «but I tell you I'm lying.» He showed how a big movement with one hand pulls every eye, while the other hand does the quiet work. Who acts: secret, big movement, other hand. 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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 (secret, big movement, other hand), 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:8 # text = «I'm a professional liar,» he said, «but I tell you I'm lying.» He showed how a big movement with one hand pulls every eye, while the other hand does the quiet work. # 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 ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 professional professional ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 liar liar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 ccomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 22 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 24 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nsubj 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 32 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 33 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 35 while while SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | secret | a professional liar | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | secret | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | secret | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **lie** *in a quote* | present · progressive | secret | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **show** | past | secret | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **pull** | present | a big movement with one hand | every eye | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 7 | **do** | present | the other hand | the quiet work | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | 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:8`. **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 ×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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/6/) - next →: [The magician's trick explained, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/)