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Test 8 · ★ · The older kid's «trade»

Older boy at the fair: «magic stones, make ur wishes come true, a quid each». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: magic stones, wishes, ur · What happens: make, come, wish, be · To what, where: quid

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 445 «The older kid's «trade»» 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

Sentence 1: Older boy at the fair: «magic stones, make ur wishes come true, a quid each».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 boy	amod
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 fair	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fair	det
5	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 stones	punct
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 stones	punct
8	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stones	compound
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 boy	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
11	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stones	acl:relcl
12	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wishes	nmod:poss
13	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 make	xcomp
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 come	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 quid	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 quid	det
18	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 quid	nmod
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 each	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present	magic stones not said here						tree rules
2	come in a quote	present	ur's wishes	a quid each				true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wish in a quote		ur						nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

Sentence 2: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

They work for younger kids only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 work	nsubj
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 kids	case
4	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 kids	amod
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 work	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	2 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	They					for younger kids	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for kid=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nobody sells real magic for a pound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 sells	nsubj
2	sells	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 magic	amod
4	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sells	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 pound	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pound	det
7	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sells	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	Nobody	real magic				for a pound	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent magic=Theme for pound=Asset

Option 3

They work if you wish hard enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 work	nsubj
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wish	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wish	nsubj
5	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 work	advcl
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wish	advmod
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 wish	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	They						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wish a condition, not said to happen	present	you					enough, hard property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Only the blue ones work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 work	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ones	det
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	nsubj
5	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the blue ones						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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