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title: bro my compass is broken, it's pointing at my phone case magnet lol.… — Compasses and the magnetic Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: bro my compass is broken, it's pointing at my phone case magnet lol. is it? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 30 «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» 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 1 · ★ · Compasses and the magnetic Earth

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bro my compass is broken, it's pointing at my phone case magnet lol. is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** compass · **What happens:** break, point, be · **To what, where:** bro, case magnet, compass

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 30 «Compasses and the magnetic Earth» 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/30-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:30-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth:t1:1
# text = bro my compass is broken, it's pointing at my phone case magnet lol. is it?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	compass	compass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · passive |  | bro and my compass |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **point** | present · progressive | compass |  |  | my case magnet |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | compass |  |  |  |  | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, it needs new batteries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:30-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth:t1:o1:1
# text = Yes, it needs new batteries
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	batteries	battery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | it | new batteries |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot battery=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, compasses can only break that way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:30-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth:t1:o2:1
# text = Yes, compasses can only break that way
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	compasses	compass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | can | compasses | that way |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, your phone case is actually north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:30-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth:t1:o3:1
# text = No, your phone case is actually north
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
8	north	north	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | your phone case |  |  |  |  | actually, north *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Not broken, the close magnet just pulls harder than the Earth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:30-compasses-and-the-magnetic-earth:t1:o4:1
# text = Not broken, the close magnet just pulls harder than the Earth
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **break** | participle | the close magnet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pull** | present | the close magnet |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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