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title: tried to stick a magnet on a coke can, didnt work, why — Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and m… · tree and pragmatics
description: tried to stick a magnet on a coke can, didnt work, why Test 11 of lesson 51 «Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets» of the world 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 11 · Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets

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tried to stick a magnet on a coke can, didnt work, why

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** try, stick · **To what, where:** didnt work, magnet, coke

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This is test 11 of lesson 51 «Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets» of the world 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/world/51-forces/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:51-forces:t11:1
# text = tried to stick a magnet on a coke can, didnt work, why
1	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	stick	stick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coke	coke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	didnt	didnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past |  | didnt work |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stick** | to-infinitive |  | a magnet |  | a coke |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent magnet=Theme on coke=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Magnets only stick to wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:51-forces:t11:o1:1
# text = Magnets only stick to wood
1	Magnets	magnet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	stick	stick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | present | Magnets |  |  |  |  | to wood | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to wood=Co-Patient |

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

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Aluminium is not magnetic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:51-forces:t11:o2:1
# text = Aluminium is not magnetic
1	Aluminium	aluminium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Aluminium |  |  |  |  | magnetic *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The magnet was upside down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:51-forces:t11:o3:1
# text = The magnet was upside down
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	upside	upside	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the magnet |  |  |  |  | down, upside *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The can was too cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:51-forces:t11:o4:1
# text = The can was too cold
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can |  |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | 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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