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title: Ella scatters iron filings round a magnet and they bunch up at the t… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ella scatters iron filings round a magnet and they bunch up at the two ends. What does that tell her? Test 11 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'
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# Test 11 · Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching

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Ella scatters iron filings round a magnet and they bunch up at the two ends. What does that tell her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ella, filings, that · **What happens:** scatter, bunch up, tell · **To what, where:** iron filings, two ends, Ella · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 of lesson 29 «Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching» 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/29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ella scatters iron filings round a magnet and they bunch up at the two ends.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t11:1
# text = Ella scatters iron filings round a magnet and they bunch up at the two ends.
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	scatters	scatter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	filings	filing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	bunch	bunch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter** | present | Ella | iron filings |  |  |  | round a magnet | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent filing=Theme |
| 2 | **bunch up** | present | filings *= filing* |  |  |  | at the two ends |  | tree rules |

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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:* What does that tell her?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t11:2
# text = What does that tell her?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | that |  | Ella |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The magnet is broken in the middle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t11:o1:1
# text = The magnet is broken in the middle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · passive |  | the magnet |  | the middle |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The filings are scared of the middle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t11:o2:1
# text = The filings are scared of the middle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	filings	filing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the filings |  |  |  |  | of the middle; scared *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The ends of the magnet are wet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t11:o3:1
# text = The ends of the magnet are wet
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the ends of the magnet |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The pull is strongest at the poles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t11:o4:1
# text = The pull is strongest at the poles
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pull	pull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the pull |  |  | the poles |  | strong *property* | tree rules |

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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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