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Test 9 · ★★ · The magician's trick explained

In a cartoon, a wizard has real magic and makes a car vanish. What's the truth about stage magic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wizard, truth · What happens: have, make, be · To what, where: real magic, cartoon, car vanish

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: In a cartoon, a wizard has real magic and makes a car vanish.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wizard	det
6	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 magic	amod
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 makes	cc
11	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 has	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 vanish	det
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 vanish	compound
14	vanish	vanish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 makes	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a wizard	real magic		a cartoon			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Patient
2	make	present	a wizard not said here	a car vanish					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vanish=Product

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: What's the truth about stage magic?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 magic	case
6	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 magic	compound
7	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 truth	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the truth about stage magic						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Magicians use special glasses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glasses	amod
4	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Magicians	special glasses					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient

Option 2

Some magicians have real powers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 magicians	det
2	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 powers	amod
5	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	some magicians	real powers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's practice and misdirection, not powers

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	3 practice	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 practice	cop
3	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 misdirection	cc
5	misdirection	misdirection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 practice	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 powers	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 powers	advmod
8	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 practice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	practice and misdirection and powers					tree rules

Option 4

Stage magic is done by robots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 magic	compound
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 done	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 robots	case
6	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 done	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · passive	robots	Stage magic					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality

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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