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Test 9 · Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks

Two balloons both rubbed on your hair hang side by side on strings. What do they do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Two balloons, balloons · What happens: rub, hang, do · To what, where: hair, side, strings

This is test 9 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: Two balloons both rubbed on your hair hang side by side on strings.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 balloons	nummod
2	balloons	balloon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rubbed	nsubj
3	both	both	ADV	_	4 rubbed	advmod
4	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hair	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubbed	obl
8	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rubbed	xcomp
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hang	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 side	case
11	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hang	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 strings	case
13	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hang	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rubbed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	Two balloons			your hair		both property	tree rules
2	hang	infinitive	Two balloons not said here	side		strings		by side	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Destination

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: What do they do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	balloons = balloon						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Pop at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Pop	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Push away from each other, because they have the same charge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Push	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 each	case
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	1 Push	obl
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 have	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Push	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 charge	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 charge	amod
12	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push away	imperative	you not said here					from each; away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from each=Co-Patient
2	have	present	they	the same charge					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Patient

Option 3

Snap together tightly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	together	together	ADV	_	1 Snap	advmod
3	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	1 Snap	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	imperative	you not said here					tightly, together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Hang touching, doing nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	touching	touching	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hang	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Hang	advcl
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	imperative	you not said here	touching					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touching=Patient
2	do	gerund	you not said here	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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