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title: In a cartoon, a wizard has real magic and makes a car vanish. What's… — The magician's trick explained · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, a wizard has real magic and makes a car vanish. What's the truth about stage magic? Test 9 · ★★ 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 
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# Test 9 · ★★ · The magician's trick explained

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In a cartoon, a wizard has real magic and makes a car vanish. What's the truth about stage magic?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wizard, truth · **What happens:** have, make, be · **To what, where:** real magic, cartoon, car vanish

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a wizard has real magic and makes a car vanish.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t9:1
# text = In a cartoon, a wizard has real magic and makes a car vanish.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	vanish	vanish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a wizard | real magic |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | a wizard *not said here* | a car vanish |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vanish=Product |

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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 the truth about stage magic?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t9:2
# text = What's the truth about stage magic?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the truth about stage magic |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Magicians use special glasses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t9:o1:1
# text = Magicians use special glasses
1	Magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Magicians | special glasses |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Some magicians have real powers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t9:o2:1
# text = Some magicians have real powers
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | some magicians | real powers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It's practice and misdirection, not powers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t9:o3:1
# text = It's practice and misdirection, not powers
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	misdirection	misdirection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | practice and misdirection and powers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Stage magic is done by robots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:448-the-magicians-trick-explained:t9:o4:1
# text = Stage magic is done by robots
1	Stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	robots	robot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · passive | robots | Stage magic |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |

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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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