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Test 8 · ★★ · The magician's trick explained

Magician: «Pick ANY card you like!» Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Magician, you · What happens: pick, like, be · To what, where: card

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: Magician: «Pick ANY card you like!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Pick	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Pick	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Pick	punct
4	Pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	ANY	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 card	det
6	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Pick	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 card	acl:relcl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Pick	punct
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick in a quote	infinitive	Magician	any card					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Patient
2	like in a quote	present	you	any card not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot card=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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Your choice may have been steered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 choice	nmod:poss
2	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steered	nsubj:pass
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 steered	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 steered	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 steered	aux:pass
6	steered	steer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steer	may · perfect · passive		Your choice					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Magicians never touch the cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 touch	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 touch	advmod
3	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cards	det
5	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	present	Magicians	the cards					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme card=Co-Theme

Option 3

Your choice is always totally free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 choice	nmod:poss
2	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 free	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 free	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 free	advmod
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 free	advmod
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your choice					always, free, totally property	tree rules

Option 4

All the cards have the same picture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 cards	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cards	det
3	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 picture	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 picture	amod
7	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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