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title: dude, what was the magic jar thing that fixed the dead guy? — Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever… · tree and pragmatics
description: dude, what was the magic jar thing that fixed the dead guy? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a ho…

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dude, what was the magic jar thing that fixed the dead guy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dude, magic jar thing · **What happens:** be, fix · **To what, where:** magic jar thing, dead guy

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» 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/1650-pg5615-part39/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t3:1
# text = dude, what was the magic jar thing that fixed the dead guy?
1	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | dude | the magic jar thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fix** | past | the magic jar thing | the dead guy |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent guy=Patient |

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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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the jar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t3:o1:1
# text = the jar
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a potion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t3:o2:1
# text = a potion
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	potion	potion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the ointment, the salve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t3:o3:1
# text = the ointment, the salve
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	salve	salve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the herbal oil stuff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t3:o4:1
# text = the herbal oil stuff
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	herbal	herbal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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