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title: Determine the position at which a door is most readily turned upon i… — Pushes and pulls all around us · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the position at which a door is most readily turned upon its hinges by a given push. Exam question 4 of lesson 5 «Pushes and pulls all around us» 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 wr
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# Exam question 4 · Pushes and pulls all around us

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Determine the position at which a door is most readily turned upon its hinges by a given push.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, given push · **What happens:** determine, turn, give · **To what, where:** position, door

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 5 «Pushes and pulls all around us» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:e4:1
# text = Determine the position at which a door is most readily turned upon its hinges by a given push.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hinges	hinge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the position |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Topic |
| 2 | **turn** | present · passive | a given push | a door |  | the position |  | upon door's hinges; readily *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at which=Source upon hinge=Trajectory |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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Immediately adjacent to the hinges

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:e4:o1:1
# text = Immediately adjacent to the hinges
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hinges	hinge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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At the edge most remote from the hinges

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:e4:o2:1
# text = At the edge most remote from the hinges
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	remote	remote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hinges	hinge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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At the exact middle point between the hinges

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:e4:o3:1
# text = At the exact middle point between the hinges
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	middle	middle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hinges	hinge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The position is of no consequence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:e4:o4:1
# text = The position is of no consequence
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the position |  |  |  |  | of no consequence | tree rules |

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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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