Test 8 · Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push

Why would it be silly to lift a heavy stone with tweezers?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, lift · To what, where: heavy stone

This is test 8 of lesson 33 «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 silly	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 silly	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 silly	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 silly	cop
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lift	mark
7	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 silly	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stone	det
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stone	amod
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lift	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 tweezers	case
12	tweezers	tweezer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lift	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 silly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	it					silly property	tree rules
2	lift	to-infinitive		a heavy stone				with tweezers	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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

Stones are magnetic and stick to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 magnetic	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 magnetic	cop
3	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stick	cc
5	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 magnetic	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Stones					magnetic property	tree rules
2	stick	infinitive	Stones not said here		Stones = stone				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Patient

Option 2

Tweezers only work on wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tweezers	tweezer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 work	advmod
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 wood	case
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Tweezers					on wood	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on wood=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tweezers give less force, not more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tweezers	tweezer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 force	amod
4	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 more	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Tweezers	less force					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent force=Recipient more=Theme

Option 4

Tweezers are too long and too strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tweezers	tweezer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 long	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 strong	cc
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 strong	advmod
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tweezers					long property	tree rules
2	be		Tweezers not said here						tree rules

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