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Test 7 · Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets

You squeeze a lump of clay and it becomes flat. What did the force do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, lump, force · What happens: squeeze, become, do · To what, where: lump

This is test 7 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

Sentence 1: You squeeze a lump of clay and it becomes flat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 squeeze	nsubj
2	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lump	det
4	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squeeze	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 clay	case
6	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lump	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 becomes	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 becomes	nsubj
9	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 squeeze	conj
10	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 becomes	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 squeeze	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	present	You	a lump of clay					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Theme
2	become	present	lump					flat property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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.

Sentence 2: What did the force do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 force	det
4	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the force						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

It made the clay lighter than air

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clay	det
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 made	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 air	case
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	the clay				light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material clay=Product

Option 2

It made the clay magnetic

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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clay	det
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	the clay				magnetic property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material clay=Product

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

It changed the shape of the clay

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 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shape	det
4	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 clay	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clay	det
7	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shape	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	It	the shape of the clay					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient

Option 4

It changed the weight of the clay

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 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 weight	det
4	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 clay	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clay	det
7	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	It	the weight of the clay					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient

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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