Test 18 · ★ · April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work

my cousin says a magician at a party "swallowed a real sword and nearly died, blood everywhere". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, magician · What happens: say, swallow, die, be, exaggerate · To what, where: real sword, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 magician	det
5	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swallowed	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 party	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 party	det
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 magician	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 swallowed	punct
10	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sword	det
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sword	amod
13	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swallowed	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 died	cc
15	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	16 died	advmod
16	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 swallowed	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 everywhere	punct
18	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 everywhere	obl:unmarked
19	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 died	advmod
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 everywhere	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 prob	advmod
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 prob	cop
24	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
25	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	swallow in a quote	past	a magician at a party	a real sword		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient
3	die in a quote	past	a magician at a party not said here		everywhere, nearly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a	present		prob		tree rules
5	exaggerate	participle		prob not said here		tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

That magicians do tricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 magicians	det
2	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	nsubj
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	that magicians	tricks					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The blood and nearly dying; still, never copy tricks with blades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blood	det
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 copy	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dying	cc
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	5 dying	advmod
5	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 blood	conj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 copy	punct
7	still	still	ADV	_	10 copy	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 still	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 copy	advmod
10	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 copy	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 blades	case
13	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 copy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	gerund	the blood not said here					nearly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not copy	infinitive	the blood	tricks			still	with blades	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme

Option 3

That trained performers use special equipment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 performers	nsubj
2	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 performers	amod
3	performers	performer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 equipment	amod
6	equipment	equipment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	train	participle			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	performer		That		tree rules
3	use	present	trained performers	special equipment	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equipment=Patient

Option 4

That sword tricks need training

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sword	det
2	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricks	compound
3	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	sword tricks	training					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot training=Theme

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