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title: wait, is he like a wizard or what? — Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's St… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, is he like a wizard or what? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 938 «Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wise man in a crystal castle fears death and teaches his children about the philosopher's stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wis…

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wait, is he like a wizard or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, he · **What happens:** wait, be

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 938 «Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wise man in a crystal castle fears death and teaches his children about the philosopher's stone» 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/938-pg27200-part149/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:938-pg27200-part149:t2:1
# text = wait, is he like a wizard or what?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | like a wizard | 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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Just a really clever guy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:938-pg27200-part149:t2:o1:1
# text = Just a really clever guy
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	guy	guy	NOUN	NN	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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More like a super smart dude

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:938-pg27200-part149:t2:o2:1
# text = More like a super smart dude
1	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Kinda magic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:938-pg27200-part149:t2:o3:1
# text = Kinda magic
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	magic	magic	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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He's more like a super smart dude who studies books all day long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:938-pg27200-part149:t2:o4:1
# text = He's more like a super smart dude who studies books all day long
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	super	super	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	studies	study	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | He |  |  |  |  | like a super smart dude | tree rules |
| 2 | **study** | present | a super smart dude | books |  |  | day | long *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |

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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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