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Test 4 · ★★ · The magician's trick explained

Fortune teller: «Someone close is thinking of you.» Aisha's mum: «That's true of everyone.» What does she mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Someone, That, Aisha · What happens: think, be, mean

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Fortune teller: «Someone close is thinking of you.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teller	compound
2	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 thinking	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 thinking	punct
5	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 thinking	nsubj
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Someone	amod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thinking	aux
8	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 teller	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 thinking	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 teller	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 teller	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	present · progressive	Someone					of you	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Aisha's mum: «That's true of everyone.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aisha	Aisha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mum	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Aisha	case
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct
6	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 true	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mum	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 everyone	case
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 true	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mum	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 mum	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That					of everyone; true property	tree rules

Sentence 3: What does she mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	Aisha						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

She's secretly a fortune teller too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 teller	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 teller	cop
3	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	6 teller	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 teller	det
5	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teller	compound
6	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	6 teller	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	a fortune teller				secretly property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone has the very same best friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 friend	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friend	amod
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 friend	amod
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Everyone	the same best friend					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The words fit almost anybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fit	nsubj
3	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 anybody	advmod
5	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 fit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	present	the words	anybody					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Patient

Option 4

The fortune teller can see the future

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 teller	det
2	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teller	compound
3	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 future	det
7	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	the fortune teller	the future					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer future=Stimulus

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