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title: Your clothes dried on the washing line outside never cling. Why? — Static electricity: balloons, hair and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your clothes dried on the washing line outside never cling. Why? Test 7 of lesson 26 «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» 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 7 · Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks

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Your clothes dried on the washing line outside never cling. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** dry, not cling · **To what, where:** clothes, washing line

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This is test 7 of lesson 26 «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» 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/26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your clothes dried on the washing line outside never cling.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks:t7:1
# text = Your clothes dried on the washing line outside never cling.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	cling	cling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle · passive |  | Your clothes |  | the washing line |  | outside *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **not** **cling** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks:t7:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The Sun makes them magnetic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks:t7:o1:1
# text = The Sun makes them magnetic
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the Sun | them *= they* |  |  |  | magnetic *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They were not rubbed and charged by tumbling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks:t7:o2:1
# text = They were not rubbed and charged by tumbling
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	charged	charge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **rub** | past · passive |  | They |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **charge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tumble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Clothes only ever cling in summer, when it is hot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks:t7:o3:1
# text = Clothes only ever cling in summer, when it is hot
1	Clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	cling	cling	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cling** | present | Clothes |  |  |  | ever; summer |  | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The wind glued them apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:26-static-electricity-balloons-hair-and-sparks:t7:o4:1
# text = The wind glued them apart
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	glued	glue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glue** | past | the wind | them *= they* |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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