Test 3 · Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching

How could you make a paper clip dance on top of a table without touching it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: make, touch · To what, where: clip dance, top, dance

This is test 3 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 make	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dance	det
6	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clip	compound
7	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dance	compound
8	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 top	case
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 top	nmod
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 touching	mark
15	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 make	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 touching	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	could	you	a clip dance		top of a table			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Product
2	touch	gerund	you not said here	dance					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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

Move a magnet underneath the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 magnet	det
3	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obj
4	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	6 table	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 table	det
6	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	imperative	you not said here	a magnet				underneath the table	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent magnet=Theme

Option 2

Blow on the paper clip very gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 clip	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 clip	det
4	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clip	compound
5	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blow	obl
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 gently	advmod
7	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Blow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	imperative	you not said here			the paper clip		gently property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Rub the table with a balloon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rub	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 balloon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 balloon	det
6	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rub	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	imperative	you not said here	the table				with a balloon	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent table=Destination with balloon=Theme

Option 4

Tap the table with a pencil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 table	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 pencil	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pencil	det
6	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 table	nmod

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

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