Test 7 · ★★ · The magician's trick explained

What would happen if a magician kept the girl's watch and walked off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magician · What happens: happen, keep, walk off · To what, where: watch

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 kept	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 magician	det
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watch	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 girl	case
11	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 walked	cc
13	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kept	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 walked	compound:prt
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	a magician	the girl's watch	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
3	walk off	past	a magician not said here		vn resign-10.11-2 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It would be a better magic trick

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	7 trick	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 trick	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 trick	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trick	det
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 trick	amod
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	compound
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	a better magic trick					tree rules

Option 2

It would be a gift for the magician

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	5 gift	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 gift	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 gift	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gift	det
5	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 magician	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 magician	det
8	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gift	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	a gift				for the magician	tree rules

Option 3

It would be part of a normal show

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 part	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 part	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 part	cop
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 show	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 show	det
7	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 show	amod
8	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	part				of a normal show	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would be stealing, not a trick

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 stealing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stealing	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 stealing	aux
4	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trick	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 trick	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trick	det
8	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stealing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	would · progressive	It						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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