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title: In a cartoon, a mouse lifts an elephant with a tiny short plank. Wha… — Levers: lifting heavy things with a li… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, a mouse lifts an elephant with a tiny short plank. What would really be needed? Test 4 of lesson 33 «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 4 · Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push

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In a cartoon, a mouse lifts an elephant with a tiny short plank. What would really be needed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mouse · **What happens:** lift, need · **To what, where:** elephant, cartoon

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This is test 4 of lesson 33 «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» 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/33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a mouse lifts an elephant with a tiny short plank.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push:t4:1
# text = In a cartoon, a mouse lifts an elephant with a tiny short plank.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lifts	lift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | present | a mouse | a elephant |  | a cartoon |  | with a tiny short plank | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme in cartoon=Destination |

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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 would really be needed?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push:t4:2
# text = What would really be needed?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | would · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A very long plank with the pivot near the elephant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push:t4:o1:1
# text = A very long plank with the pivot near the elephant
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pivot	pivot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	near	near	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A thicker plank with the pivot near the mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push:t4:o2:1
# text = A thicker plank with the pivot near the mouse
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pivot	pivot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing more, any plank will do

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push:t4:o3:1
# text = Nothing more, any plank will do
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | future | any plank |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A plank made of steel instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push:t4:o4:1
# text = A plank made of steel instead
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  | a plank *not said here* |  |  |  | of steel; instead *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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