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description: Identify which of the following materials is strongly attracted by a magnet. Exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching» 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 wron
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# Exam question 1 · Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching

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Identify which of the following materials is strongly attracted by a magnet.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, magnet · **What happens:** identify, follow, attract

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:e1:1
# text = Identify which of the following materials is strongly attracted by a magnet.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **attract** | present · passive | a magnet |  |  |  |  | strongly *property* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Plastic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:e1:o1:1
# text = Plastic
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Steel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:e1:o2:1
# text = Steel
1	Steel	steel	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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Aluminium

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:e1:o3:1
# text = Aluminium
1	Aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Copper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:e1:o4:1
# text = Copper
1	Copper	copper	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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