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title: Older boy at the fair: «magic stones, make ur wishes come true, a qu… — The older kid's «trade» · tree and pragmatics
description: Older boy at the fair: «magic stones, make ur wishes come true, a quid each». What's true? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 445 «The older kid's «trade»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · The older kid's «trade»

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Older boy at the fair: «magic stones, make ur wishes come true, a quid each». What's true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** magic stones, wishes, ur · **What happens:** make, come, wish, be · **To what, where:** quid

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 445 «The older kid's «trade»» of the everyday 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/everyday/445-the-older-kids-trade/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Older boy at the fair: «magic stones, make ur wishes come true, a quid each».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade:t8:1
# text = Older boy at the fair: «magic stones, make ur wishes come true, a quid each».
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	ur	your	PRON	PRP$	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	xcomp	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	quid	quid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | present | magic stones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present | ur's wishes | a quid  each |  |  |  | true *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** *in a quote* |  | ur |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade:t8:2
# text = What's true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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They work for younger kids only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade:t8:o1:1
# text = They work for younger kids only
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | They |  |  |  |  | for younger kids | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for kid=Beneficiary |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Nobody sells real magic for a pound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade:t8:o2:1
# text = Nobody sells real magic for a pound
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sells	sell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | present | Nobody | real magic |  |  |  | for a pound | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent magic=Theme for pound=Asset |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They work if you wish hard enough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade:t8:o3:1
# text = They work if you wish hard enough
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wish** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | enough, hard *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only the blue ones work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:445-the-older-kids-trade:t8:o4:1
# text = Only the blue ones work
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | the blue ones |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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