Test 11 · ★★ · The magician's trick explained
TV magician: «Watch my right hand!» Where should a clever kid look?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clever kid · What happens: watch, look · To what, where: right hand
This is test 11 · ★★ 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: TV magician: «Watch my right hand!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 magician | compound |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Watch | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 Watch | punct |
| 5 | Watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 magician | parataxis |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hand | amod |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Watch | obj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 magician | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 magician | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch in a quote | infinitive | my right hand | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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: Where should a clever kid look?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 look | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 4 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kid | amod |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | nsubj |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | should | a clever kid | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
At the magician's hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 hat | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 magician | case |
| 5 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
At the other hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
At the people in the audience
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 people | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 audience | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 audience | det |
| 6 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
At the right hand only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 hand | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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