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Test 1 · ★★ · The magician's trick explained

Owen, 6: «he really pulled money outta my ear, I'm gonna be rich». What's true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Owen, I · What happens: pull, be · To what, where: money outta

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 448 «The magician's trick explained» 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: Owen, 6: «he really pulled money outta my ear, I'm gonna be rich».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 6	punct
3	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Owen	appos
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Owen	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 pulled	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pulled	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 pulled	advmod
8	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 outta	compound
10	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	obj
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ear	nmod:poss
12	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pulled	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rich	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 rich	nsubj
15	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 rich	cop
16	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	18 rich	dep
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 rich	cop
18	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pulled	parataxis
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 rich	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pulled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull in a quote	past	Owen	money outta					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent outta=Theme ear=Result
2	is in a quote	present	I					rich property	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.

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

Owen should check every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 check	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 check	aux
3	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 check	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	should	Owen				day		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

It was a trick — the coin was in his hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trick	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 trick	det
4	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 hand	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coin	det
7	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hand	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hand	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hand	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a trick and his hand					tree rules
2	is	past	the coin			his hand			tree rules

Option 3

Ears do make coins sometimes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · do-support	Ears	coins				sometimes property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset coin=Product

Option 4

Only magicians' ears make coins, because they practise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 magicians	advmod
2	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ears	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 magicians	case
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 practise	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 practise	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 practise	nsubj
10	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 make	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	magicians's ears	coins					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset coin=Product
2	practise	present	ears = ear						tree rules

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