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title: Was the magic needle totally lit or just meh? — Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the magic needle totally lit or just meh? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» 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 2 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…

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Was the magic needle totally lit or just meh?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, lit · **To what, where:** magic needle

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» 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/719-pg2435-part59/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:t2:1
# text = Was the magic needle totally lit or just meh?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	meh	meh	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	conj	_	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** | past |  | the magic needle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lit** | participle · passive |  | the magic needle |  |  |  | totally *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It sewed all by itself, super lit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:t2:o1:1
# text = It sewed all by itself, super lit
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	super	super	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | past | It |  |  |  |  | by itself *= it*; all *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by itself=Destination |
| 2 | **lit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | super *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sewed fast but needed hands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:t2:o2:1
# text = Sewed fast but needed hands
1	Sewed	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It sewed by itself, kinda cool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:t2:o3:1
# text = It sewed by itself, kinda cool
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sew** | past | It |  |  |  |  | by itself *= it* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by itself=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Meh, kinda boring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:t2:o4:1
# text = Meh, kinda boring
1	Meh	Meh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	appos	_	_
```

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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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