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title: so what's the magic wand for, innit? — Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what's the magic wand for, innit? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1647 «Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth reaches the moat round the church» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wr
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# Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth…

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so what's the magic wand for, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** magic wand · **What happens:** be, innit · **To what, where:** magic wand

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1647 «Household Tales, The Heart in the Bird, part 36: the youth reaches the moat round the church» 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/1647-pg5615-part36/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1647-pg5615-part36:t8:1
# text = so what's the magic wand for, innit?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the magic wand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **innit** | infinitive | the magic wand *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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to cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1647-pg5615-part36:t8:o1:1
# text = to cook
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cook	cook	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to free the sisters and the brothers from the old man's spell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1647-pg5615-part36:t8:o2:1
# text = to free the sisters and the brothers from the old man's spell
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spell** |  | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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to free the sisters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1647-pg5615-part36:t8:o3:1
# text = to free the sisters
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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to free the sisters and turn the stones back into men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1647-pg5615-part36:t8:o4:1
# text = to free the sisters and turn the stones back into men
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
6	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | present | the free sisters | the stones |  |  |  | into men | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |

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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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