Test 4 · ★ · Magnets

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 81 «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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

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

A magnet pulls harder from far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 magnet	det
2	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	nsubj
3	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 pulls	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 far	case
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	3 pulls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	a magnet					away, hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

A magnet attracts every kind of metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 magnet	det
2	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attracts	nsubj
3	attracts	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 kind	det
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attracts	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 metal	case
7	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	present	a magnet	every kind of metal					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A magnet can attract a clip through your hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 magnet	det
2	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attract	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 attract	aux
4	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 clip	det
6	clip	clip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attract	obj
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 attract	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	can	a magnet	a clip		your hand			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clip=Patient

Option 4

A magnet works only when it touches things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 magnet	det
2	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	nsubj
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 touches	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 touches	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 touches	nsubj
7	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 works	advcl
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 touches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	a magnet						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	touch	present	magnet	things					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme

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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