Test 8 · Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching

oi, stop stroking my sewing needle with that magnet!! what's it gonna do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: oi, needle · What happens: stop, stroke, do · To what, where: sewing needle

This is test 8 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	oi	oi	X	Foreign=Yes	3 stop	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stroking	stroke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 needle	nmod:poss
6	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 needle	compound
7	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stroking	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 magnet	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 magnet	det
10	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stroking	obl
11	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	16 do	dep
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	infinitive	oi			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	stroke	gerund	oi not said here	my sewing needle	with that magnet	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent needle=Experiencer with magnet=Instrument
3	do	present	needle			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Turn the needle into a weak magnet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 needle	det
3	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 magnet	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 magnet	det
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 magnet	amod
7	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	the needle		a weak magnet			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent needle=Theme into magnet=Trajectory

Option 2

Make the needle pull on plastic things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 needle	det
3	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	nsubj
4	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Make	parataxis
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 things	case
6	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	pull	present	the needle					on plastic things	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on thing=Theme

Option 3

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

Option 4

Melt the needle a little bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melt	melt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 needle	det
3	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Melt	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bit	amod
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Melt	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	imperative	you not said here	the needle				a little bit obl:unmarked	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient needle=Result

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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