--- title: TV magician: «Watch my right hand!» Where should a clever kid look? — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: TV magician: «Watch my right hand!» Where should a clever kid look? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 448 «The magician's trick explained» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [The magician's trick explained](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★★ · The magician's trick explained TV magician: «Watch my right hand!» Where should a clever kid look? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** clever kid · **What happens:** watch, look · **To what, where:** right hand This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 448 «The magician's trick explained» 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/448-the-magicians-trick-explained/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* TV magician: «Watch my right hand!» ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t11:1 # text = TV magician: «Watch my right hand!» 1 TV TV NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my right hand | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* Where should a clever kid look? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t11:2 # text = Where should a clever kid look? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 6 advmod _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | should | a clever kid | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} At the magician's hat ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t11:o1:1 # text = At the magician's hat 1 At at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} At the other hand ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t11:o2:1 # text = At the other hand 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} At the people in the audience ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t11:o3:1 # text = At the people in the audience 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} At the right hand only ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t11:o4:1 # text = At the right hand only 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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