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title: What did the magician chuck on the fire? — Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the magician chuck on the fire? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 210 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy's plot nearly kills Noureddin, but the vizir arrives in time» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 12 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy'…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What did the magician chuck on the fire?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** magician chuck, fire

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 210 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin Ali and the Fair Persian: Saouy's plot nearly kills Noureddin, but the vizir arrives in time» 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/210-pg128-part50/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t12:1
# text = What did the magician chuck on the fire?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	chuck	chuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the magician chuck |  | the fire |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuck=Eventuality |

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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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a pinch of salt and some words

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t12:o1:1
# text = a pinch of salt and some words
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pinch	pinch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pinch** |  |  | salt |  |  |  |  | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a powder, plus some magic words spoken very quickly over the flames

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t12:o2:1
# text = a powder, plus some magic words spoken very quickly over the flames
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle · passive | a powder *not said here* | some magic words |  | the flames |  | quickly *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a powder, plus some magic words

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t12:o3:1
# text = a powder, plus some magic words
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a handful of strange powder mixed with a chant and a bowl of red oil

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:210-pg128-part50:t12:o4:1
# text = a handful of strange powder mixed with a chant and a bowl of red oil
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chant	chant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mix** | participle |  | a handful of strange powder |  |  |  | with a chant and a bowl of red oil | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with chant=Co-Patient |

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