Exam question 4 · Pushes and pulls all around us

Determine the position at which a door is most readily turned upon its hinges by a given push.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, given push · What happens: determine, turn, give · To what, where: position, door

This is exam question 4 of lesson 5 «Pushes and pulls all around us» 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 position	det
3	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 turned	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	aux:pass
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 readily	advmod
10	readily	readily	ADV	_	11 turned	advmod
11	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 position	acl:relcl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 hinges	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hinges	nmod:poss
14	hinges	hinge	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 turned	obl
15	by	by	ADP	_	18 push	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 push	det
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 push	amod
18	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the position			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Topic
2	turn	present · passive	a given push	a door	the position	upon door's hinges; readily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at which=Source upon hinge=Trajectory
3	give	participle					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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

Immediately adjacent to the hinges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	2 adjacent	advmod
2	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 hinges	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hinges	det
5	hinges	hinge	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 adjacent	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

At the edge most remote from the hinges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 edge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 edge	det
3	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 remote	advmod
5	remote	remote	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 edge	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 hinges	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hinges	det
8	hinges	hinge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 edge	nmod

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

Option 3

At the exact middle point between the hinges

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	5 point	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 point	det
3	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 point	amod
4	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 point	amod
5	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 hinges	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hinges	det
8	hinges	hinge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 point	nmod

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

Option 4

The position is of no consequence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 position	det
2	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consequence	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consequence	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 consequence	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 consequence	det
6	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the position					of no consequence	tree rules

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