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title: A cartoon astronaut on the Moon drops a hammer and a feather, and th… — Olympiad: forces, floating and machine… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon astronaut on the Moon drops a hammer and a feather, and the feather drifts down slowly. Fix it. Test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★

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A cartoon astronaut on the Moon drops a hammer and a feather, and the feather drifts down slowly. Fix it.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon astronaut, feather, you · **What happens:** drop, drift down, fix · **To what, where:** hammer, feather

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» 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/42-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon astronaut on the Moon drops a hammer and a feather, and the feather drifts down slowly.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:42-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines:t3:1
# text = A cartoon astronaut on the Moon drops a hammer and a feather, and the feather drifts down slowly.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	drifts	drift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | a cartoon astronaut on the Moon | a hammer and a feather |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme |
| 2 | **drift down** | present | the feather |  |  |  |  | down, slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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:* Fix it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:42-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines:t3:2
# text = Fix it.
1	Fix	fix	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | imperative | you *not said here* | feather |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

## The options {#options}

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

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With no air, they land together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:42-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines:t3:o1:1
# text = With no air, they land together
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	land	land	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | present | they |  |  |  |  | with no air; together *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The feather should land first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:42-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines:t3:o2:1
# text = The feather should land first
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | should | the feather |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The hammer should float upwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:42-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines:t3:o3:1
# text = The hammer should float upwards
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | should | the hammer |  |  |  |  | upwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, that's how it would go

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:42-olympiad-forces-floating-and-machines:t3:o4:1
# text = Nothing, that's how it would go
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | would | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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