Assertion: hypnotist | /r/CapableOf | ask volunteer
Facets:
value: from an audience
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to perform ridiculous tasks
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: In stage hypnosis, hypnotists select volunteers from the audience and induce a trance, at which point the hypnotists asks the volunteers to perform ridiculous tasks which, presumably, they would not do out of the trance.
text: It begins with the hypnotist asking for volunteers from an audience already entranced enough with the idea of stage hypnosis that they chose to make attending the show their priority.