Test 8 · ★ · Magnets

What would happen if you broke a magnet into three pieces?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, break · To what, where: magnet, three pieces

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 broke	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 broke	nsubj
6	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 magnet	det
8	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broke	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pieces	nummod
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 broke	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a magnet				into three pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent magnet=Patient into piece=Result

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

The pieces would push away all metals near them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pieces	det
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 push	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 push	aux
4	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 push	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 metals	det
7	metals	metal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 push	obj
8	near	near	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push away	would	the pieces	all metals				near metals = metal; away property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent metal=Theme near they=Trajectory

Option 2

The magnet would lose both of its poles for ever

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 lose	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 lose	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 poles	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 poles	nmod:poss
8	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 both	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	the magnet	both					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Only the middle piece would still be a magnet at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	9 magnet	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 piece	det
3	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 piece	amod
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 magnet	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 magnet	aux
6	still	still	ADV	_	9 magnet	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 magnet	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 magnet	det
9	magnet	magnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 magnet	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	the middle piece	a magnet		all	still		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Each piece would have a north and a south pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 north	det
6	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pole	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 pole	det
9	south	South	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pole	amod
10	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 north	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	each piece	a north and a south pole					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent north=Patient

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