Exam question 1 · Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★

Determine the direction of rotation of the sixth gear in a row of meshing gears, the first of which rotates clockwise.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, first · What happens: determine, rotate · To what, where: direction

This is exam question 1 of lesson 42 «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 direction	det
3	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rotation	case
5	rotation	rotation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 direction	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 gear	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gear	det
8	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gear	amod
9	gear	gear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 direction	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 row	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 row	det
12	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gear	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 gears	case
14	meshing	meshing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gears	compound
15	gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 row	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 first	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 first	det
18	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 gear	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 rotates	nsubj
21	rotates	rotate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 first	acl:relcl
22	clockwise	clockwise	ADV	_	21 rotates	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the direction of rotation of the sixth gear in a row of meshing gears					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Topic
2	rotate	present	the first					clockwise property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Anticlockwise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anticlockwise	anticlockwise	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

It alternates in direction

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	2 alternates	nsubj
2	alternates	alternate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 direction	case
4	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 alternates	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alternate	present	It			direction			vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Clockwise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clockwise	clockwise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

It remains stationary

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	2 remains	nsubj
2	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stationary	stationary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remains	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remain	present	It	stationary					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stationary=Attribute

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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