Test 10 · Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching

What would happen to a toy car's motor if there were no magnets inside it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magnets · What happens: happen, be

This is test 10 of lesson 29 «Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	9 motor	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
6	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 car	compound
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 motor	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 car	case
9	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 were	mark
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 magnets	det
14	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
15	inside	inside	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 magnets	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a toy car's motor	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no magnets inside motor			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It would not spin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spin	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spin	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 spin	advmod
4	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spin	would	It						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would turn into a magnet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 magnet	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 magnet	det
6	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a magnet			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into magnet=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would spin twice as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spin	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spin	aux
3	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 spin	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 spin	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	would	It					fast, twice property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would spin backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spin	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spin	aux
3	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	3 spin	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	would	It					backwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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