Test 11 · Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets

tried to stick a magnet on a coke can, didnt work, why

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: try, stick · To what, where: didnt work, magnet, coke

This is test 11 of lesson 51 «Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets» of the world 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	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 stick	mark
3	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 work	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 magnet	det
5	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stick	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 coke	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coke	det
8	coke	coke	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stick	obl
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 work	aux
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 work	punct
11	didnt	didnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 work	amod
12	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tried	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 why	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past		didnt work					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	stick	to-infinitive		a magnet		a coke			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent magnet=Theme on coke=Destination

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

Magnets only stick to wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	present	Magnets					to wood	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to wood=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Aluminium is not magnetic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 magnetic	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 magnetic	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 magnetic	advmod
4	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Aluminium					magnetic property	tree rules

Option 3

The magnet was upside down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 magnet	det
2	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 upside	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 upside	cop
4	upside	upside	ADV	_	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 upside	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the magnet					down, upside property	tree rules

Option 4

The can was too cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cold	det
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	aux
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can						cold property	tree rules

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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