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title: Which floats? — Floating and sinking: the push of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which floats? Test 10 of lesson 11 «Floating and sinking: the push of the water» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · Floating and sinking: the push of the water

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Which floats?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** float

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This is test 10 of lesson 11 «Floating and sinking: the push of the water» of the physics 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/physics/11-floating-and-sinking/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:11-floating-and-sinking:t10:1
# text = Which floats?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A coin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:11-floating-and-sinking:t10:o1:1
# text = A coin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A marble

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:11-floating-and-sinking:t10:o2:1
# text = A marble
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	marble	marble	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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A key

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:11-floating-and-sinking:t10:o3:1
# text = A key
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A cork

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:11-floating-and-sinking:t10:o4:1
# text = A cork
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cork	cork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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