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title: Dad gets a short screwdriver and a long one to open a stuck tin. Whi… — Levers: lifting heavy things with a li… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dad gets a short screwdriver and a long one to open a stuck tin. Which should he pick? Test 9 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 choice was w
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# Test 9 · Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push

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Dad gets a short screwdriver and a long one to open a stuck tin. Which should he pick?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dad · **What happens:** get, open, pick · **To what, where:** short screwdriver, stuck tin

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Dad gets a short screwdriver and a long one to open a stuck tin.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push:t9:1
# text = Dad gets a short screwdriver and a long one to open a stuck tin.
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	screwdriver	screwdriver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Dad | a short screwdriver and a long one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer screwdriver=Stimulus |
| 2 | **open** | to-infinitive | Dad *not said here* | a stuck tin |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tin=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:* Which should he pick?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push:t9:2
# text = Which should he pick?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | should |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Neither, levers do not help with tins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push:t9:o1:1
# text = Neither, levers do not help with tins
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	levers	lever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	tins	tin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **help** | present · do-support | levers |  |  |  |  | with tins; neither *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tin=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Either, length does not matter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push:t9:o2:1
# text = Either, length does not matter
1	Either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support | length |  |  |  |  | either *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The short one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push:t9:o3:1
# text = The short one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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The long one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:33-levers-lifting-heavy-things-with-a-little-push:t9:o4:1
# text = The long one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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