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description: Your kettle is boiling. Just above the spout there's a small clear gap, then a white cloud. What is the white cloud? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 17 «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 7 · ★ · Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts

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Your kettle is boiling. Just above the spout there's a small clear gap, then a white cloud. What is the white cloud?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kettle, small clear gap, white cloud · **What happens:** boil, be · **To what, where:** spout

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 17 «Magnets, compasses and big Earth facts» of the myths 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/myths/17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your kettle is boiling.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts:t7:1
# text = Your kettle is boiling.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | present · progressive | Your kettle |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Just above the spout there's a small clear gap, then a white cloud.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts:t7:2
# text = Just above the spout there's a small clear gap, then a white cloud.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	above	above	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spout	spout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a small clear gap | the spout *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot spout=Theme |

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*Sentence 3:* What is the white cloud?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts:t7:3
# text = What is the white cloud?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the white cloud |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Smoke coming off the hot metal element inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts:t7:o1:1
# text = Smoke coming off the hot metal element inside
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come off** | gerund | Smoke *not said here* | the hot metal element |  |  |  | inside *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pure invisible steam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts:t7:o2:1
# text = Pure invisible steam
1	Pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Air turned white by the heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts:t7:o3:1
# text = Air turned white by the heat
1	Air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | Air |  |  |  |  | by the heat; white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by heat=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Tiny water drops formed as the steam cools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:17-magnets-compasses-and-big-earth-facts:t7:o4:1
# text = Tiny water drops formed as the steam cools
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | participle |  | Tiny water drops *not said here* |  |  |  | as the steam | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cool** | present | Tiny water drops |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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**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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