--- title: Wicked, so what happened when they tried the cock's magic words? — pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake… · tree and pragmatics description: Wicked, so what happened when they tried the cock's magic words? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1215 «pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch, and a new tale begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1215-pg3282-part16/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1215-pg3282-part16/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch… Wicked, so what happened when they tried the cock's magic words? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they, cock · **What happens:** happen, try, word · **To what, where:** magic words This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1215 «pg3282 tales, Father Grumbler: a fake cock, a magic switch, and a new tale begins» of the books 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1215-pg3282-part16/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1215-pg3282-part16:t2:1 # text = Wicked, so what happened when they tried the cock's magic words? 1 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 5 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **try** | past | they | the cock's magic words | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | | 3 | **word** | | the cock | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Just feathers ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1215-pg3282-part16:t2:o1:1 # text = Just feathers 1 Just just ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Nothing, not a single gold bit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1215-pg3282-part16:t2:o2:1 # text = Nothing, not a single gold bit 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Nothing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1215-pg3282-part16:t2:o3:1 # text = Nothing 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} A cheap silver coin fell out ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1215-pg3282-part16:t2:o4:1 # text = A cheap silver coin fell out 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall out** | past | a cheap silver coin | | | | | out *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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