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title: How could you make a paper clip dance on top of a table without touc… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without t… · tree and pragmatics
description: How could you make a paper clip dance on top of a table without touching it? Test 3 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 wrong.
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# Test 3 · Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching

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How could you make a paper clip dance on top of a table without touching it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** make, touch · **To what, where:** clip dance, top, dance

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This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t3:1
# text = How could you make a paper clip dance on top of a table without touching it?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | you | a clip dance |  | top of a table |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Product |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund | you *not said here* | dance |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Move a magnet underneath the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t3:o1:1
# text = Move a magnet underneath the table
1	Move	move	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	underneath	underneath	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | imperative | you *not said here* | a magnet |  |  |  | underneath the table | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent magnet=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Blow on the paper clip very gently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t3:o2:1
# text = Blow on the paper clip very gently
1	Blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the paper clip |  | gently *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Rub the table with a balloon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t3:o3:1
# text = Rub the table with a balloon
1	Rub	rub	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | imperative | you *not said here* | the table |  |  |  | with a balloon | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent table=Destination with balloon=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tap the table with a pencil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t3:o4:1
# text = Tap the table with a pencil
1	Tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pencil	pencil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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