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Test 7 · Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks

Your clothes dried on the washing line outside never cling. Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: dry, not cling · To what, where: clothes, washing line

This is test 7 of lesson 26 «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» of the physics 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Your clothes dried on the washing line outside never cling.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 clothes	nmod:poss
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 dried	nsubj:pass
3	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 line	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 line	det
6	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 line	compound
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dried	obl
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 dried	advmod
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 cling	advmod
10	cling	cling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dried	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle · passive		Your clothes		the washing line		outside property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	not cling	infinitive							vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

The Sun makes them magnetic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the Sun	them = they				magnetic property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were not rubbed and charged by tumbling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rubbed	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rubbed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 rubbed	advmod
4	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 charged	cc
6	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rubbed	conj
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 tumbling	mark
8	tumbling	tumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 charged	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rub	past · passive		They					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	charge	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tumble	gerund							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Clothes only ever cling in summer, when it is hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 cling	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 cling	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 cling	advmod
4	cling	cling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cling	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hot	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 hot	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hot	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hot	cop
11	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cling	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cling	present	Clothes				ever; summer		vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it					hot property	tree rules

Option 4

The wind glued them apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glued	nsubj
3	glued	glue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 glued	obj
5	apart	apart	ADV	_	3 glued	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	past	the wind	them = they				apart property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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