Exam question 4 · Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★

Select the metal which a magnet does not attract.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, magnet · What happens: select, not attract · To what, where: metal

This is exam question 4 of lesson 43 «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 metal	det
3	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 attract	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 magnet	det
6	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attract	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 attract	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 attract	advmod
9	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 metal	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the metal					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metal=Theme
2	not attract	present · do-support	a magnet	the metal					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

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

Steel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Nickel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nickel	nickel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Aluminium

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Wrought iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 iron	amod
2	iron	iron	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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