Exam question 3 · Magnets

Identify the part of a magnet at which its pull is strongest.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pull, magnet · What happens: identify, be, pull · To what, where: part, magnet

This is exam question 3 of lesson 81 «Magnets» of the world 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 part	det
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 magnet	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 magnet	det
6	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 strongest	obl
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pull	nmod:poss
10	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strongest	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 strongest	cop
12	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 magnet	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the part of a magnet			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent part=Theme
2	is	present	magnet's pull		a magnet	strong property	tree rules
3	pull		magnet				nom pull «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

At the surface facing upwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 surface	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 surface	det
3	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	facing	face	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 surface	acl
5	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	4 facing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face	gerund	the surface not said here					upwards property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

At its exact middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 middle	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 middle	nmod:poss
3	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 middle	amod
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Equally along its whole length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Equally	equally	ADV	_	root	root
2	along	along	ADP	_	5 length	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 length	nmod:poss
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 length	amod
5	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Equally	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

At its poles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 poles	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 poles	nmod:poss
3	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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