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Test 10 · ★★ · The magician's trick explained

Noah's baby cousin squeals at the «disappearing thumb». Is Noah being a liar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baby cousin, Noah · What happens: squeal, disappear, be · To what, where: liar

This is test 10 · ★★ 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: Noah's baby cousin squeals at the «disappearing thumb».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Noah	case
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cousin	compound
4	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squeals	nsubj
5	squeals	squeal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	10 thumb	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 thumb	det
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 thumb	punct
9	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 thumb	amod
10	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squeals	obl
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 thumb	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 squeals	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeal	present	Noah's baby cousin					at the disappearing thumb	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at thumb=Stimulus
2	disappear in a quote	gerund							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Is Noah being a liar?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 liar	cop
2	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 liar	nsubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 liar	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 liar	det
5	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 liar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Noah	a liar					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, and he should stop at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stop	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stop	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	should	he						vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No — it's a loving game everyone enjoys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 game	discourse
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 game	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 game	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 game	det
6	loving	loving	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 game	amod
7	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 enjoys	nsubj
9	enjoys	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 game	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a loving game					tree rules
2	enjoy	present	everyone	a loving game not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Stimulus

Option 3

No, because the thumb really goes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 goes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 goes	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 goes	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thumb	det
5	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	nsubj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 goes	advmod
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the thumb						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, he's conning his cousin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 conning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 conning	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 conning	aux
5	conning	con	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cousin	nmod:poss
7	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 conning	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	con	present · progressive	he	his cousin					vn cheat-10.6.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Source

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