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title: Who's the magician that listens at doors, innit? — Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The P… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who's the magician that listens at doors, innit? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 13 · ★ · Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6…

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Who's the magician that listens at doors, innit?

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

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 638 «Book of Dragons, Uncle James, or The Purple Dragon, part 6: the dragon's birthday plot is revealed and the Princess is offered as a present» 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/638-pg23661-part6/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t13:1
# text = Who's the magician that listens at doors, innit?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	listens	listen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the magician |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** | present | the magician |  |  |  |  | at doors | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme |
| 3 | **innit** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Tom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t13:o1:1
# text = Tom
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Uncle James

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t13:o2:1
# text = Uncle James
1	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	James	James	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the Princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t13:o3:1
# text = the Princess
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fido

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:638-pg23661-part6:t13:o4:1
# text = Fido
1	Fido	Fido	PROPN	NNP	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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