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title: Chloe pushes two magnets together and feels a soft springy push. Wha… — Magnets: pulling and pushing without t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chloe pushes two magnets together and feels a soft springy push. What is happening? Test 7 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 7 · Magnets: pulling and pushing without touching

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Chloe pushes two magnets together and feels a soft springy push. What is happening?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Chloe · **What happens:** push, feel, happen · **To what, where:** two magnets, soft springy push

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Chloe pushes two magnets together and feels a soft springy push.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t7:1
# text = Chloe pushes two magnets together and feels a soft springy push.
1	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	springy	springy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present | Chloe | two magnets |  |  |  | together *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnet=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | present | Chloe *not said here* | a soft springy push |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent push=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:* What is happening?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t7:2
# text = What is happening?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The magnets have run out of power

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t7:o1:1
# text = The magnets have run out of power
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present · perfect · passive |  | the magnets |  | power |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme out power=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Air is trapped between the magnets and squashed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t7:o2:1
# text = Air is trapped between the magnets and squashed
1	Air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	squashed	squash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trap** | present · passive |  | Air |  |  |  | between the magnets | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **squash** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Unlike poles are pulling together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t7:o3:1
# text = Unlike poles are pulling together
1	Unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull together** | present · progressive | poles |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Like poles are pushing each other apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:29-magnets-pulling-and-pushing-without-touching:t7:o4:1
# text = Like poles are pushing each other apart
1	Like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	4	obj	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present · progressive | poles | each |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |

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