--- title: Magician: «Pick ANY card you like!» Which is true? — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics description: Magician: «Pick ANY card you like!» Which is true? Test 8 · ★★ 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 right. --- [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/t8/) [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/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★★ · The magician's trick explained Magician: «Pick ANY card you like!» Which is true? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Magician, you · **What happens:** pick, like, be · **To what, where:** card This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Magician: «Pick ANY card you like!» ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t8:1 # text = Magician: «Pick ANY card you like!» 1 Magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 ANY any DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick** *in a quote* | infinitive | Magician | any card | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Patient | | 2 | **like** *in a quote* | present | you | any card *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot card=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:* Which is true? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t8:2 # text = Which is true? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is 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 _ _ ``` | # | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Your choice may have been steered ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t8:o1:1 # text = Your choice may have been steered 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux _ _ 5 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 steered steer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steer** | may · perfect · passive | | Your choice | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Magicians never touch the cards ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t8:o2:1 # text = Magicians never touch the cards 1 Magicians magician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **touch** | present | Magicians | the cards | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme card=Co-Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Your choice is always totally free ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t8:o3:1 # text = Your choice is always totally free 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 5 totally totally ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Your choice | | | | | always, free, totally *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} All the cards have the same picture ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t8:o4:1 # text = All the cards have the same picture 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | all cards | the same picture | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient | **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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