Exam question 1 · Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push

Identify the fixed point about which a lever rotates.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, lever · What happens: identify, fix, rotate · To what, where: fixed point

This is exam question 1 of lesson 33 «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 point	det
3	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 point	amod
4	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 rotates	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lever	det
8	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rotates	nsubj
9	rotates	rotate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 point	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the fixed point		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent point=Theme
2	fix	participle				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	rotate	present	a lever		about the fixed point	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about which=Location

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

The pivot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pivot	det
2	pivot	pivot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The load

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 load	det
2	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The effort

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 effort	det
2	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The handle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 handle	det
2	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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