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title: fr what was the magic ball like? — pg3282, The Lion and the Wild Cat, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr what was the magic ball like? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1246 «pg3282, The Lion and the Wild Cat, part 47: the lion steals the golden ball, and the old cat sees a copy of it» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 6 · ★ · pg3282, The Lion and the Wild Cat, part 47: the lion steal…

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fr what was the magic ball like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** magic ball

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1246 «pg3282, The Lion and the Wild Cat, part 47: the lion steals the golden ball, and the old cat sees a copy of it» 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/1246-pg3282-part47/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1246-pg3282-part47:t6:1
# text = fr what was the magic ball like?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | fr | the magic ball |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Golden and super bright, glowing like the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1246-pg3282-part47:t6:o1:1
# text = Golden and super bright, glowing like the sun
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like the sun | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Golden and super bright

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1246-pg3282-part47:t6:o2:1
# text = Golden and super bright
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Golden and super bright and so magical it could make wishes come true

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1246-pg3282-part47:t6:o3:1
# text = Golden and super bright and so magical it could make wishes come true
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	csubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | it | wishes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | wishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | true *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Silver and very heavy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1246-pg3282-part47:t6:o4:1
# text = Silver and very heavy
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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