Test 13 · ★ · April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work

how'd the magician know my card, mind reading??

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magician · What happens: know · To what, where: card

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 279 «April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 know	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 magician	det
4	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 card	nmod:poss
7	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reading	punct
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reading	compound
10	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 card	conj
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	infinitive	the magician	my card and mind reading					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer card=Stimulus

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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, but only with playing cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 cards	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 cards	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 cards	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 cards	case
6	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cards	compound
7	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, a trick like forcing the card or quick hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 trick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trick	det
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	6 forcing	mark
6	forcing	force	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 trick	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 card	det
8	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forcing	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 hands	cc
10	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hands	amod
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 card	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	gerund	a trick not said here	the card or quick hands					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Recipient

Option 3

Yes, some people really can read minds if they stare at you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 read	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 read	advmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 read	aux
7	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	minds	mind	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 read	obj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 stare	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stare	nsubj
11	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 read	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 stare	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	can	some people	minds					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Topic
2	stare a condition, not said to happen	present	people					at you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, the cards are all the same card

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 card	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cards	det
4	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 card	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 card	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 card	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 card	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 card	amod
9	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cards	the same card				all property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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