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title: Was the baby a proper magician or just dead clever? — Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the baby a proper magician or just dead clever? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» 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 4 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

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Was the baby a proper magician or just dead clever?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** baby

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» 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/708-pg2435-part48/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t4:1
# text = Was the baby a proper magician or just dead clever?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	csubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the baby |  |  |  |  | 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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a proper magician who could change into animals and fool the ogre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t4:o1:1
# text = a proper magician who could change into animals and fool the ogre
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fool	fool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | could | a proper magician |  |  |  |  | into animals *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into animal=Result |
| 2 | **fool** | infinitive | a proper magician *not said here* | the ogre |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Patient |

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

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a proper magician

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t4:o2:1
# text = a proper magician
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a magician who was only pretending to be magic for the whole village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t4:o3:1
# text = a magician who was only pretending to be magic for the whole village
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past · progressive | a magician |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | a magician *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the whole village; magic *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a bit of a trickster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:708-pg2435-part48:t4:o4:1
# text = a bit of a trickster
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trickster	trickster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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