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title: Which of these does a magnet NOT attract? — Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which of these does a magnet NOT attract? Test 9 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 9 · Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets

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Which of these does a magnet NOT attract?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** magnet · **What happens:** do, not attract · **To what, where:** magnet

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:51-forces:t9:1
# text = Which of these does a magnet NOT attract?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	magnet	magnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	NOT	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | a magnet |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magnet=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **attract** | infinitive | a magnet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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An iron nail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:51-forces:t9:o1:1
# text = An iron nail
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A steel spoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:51-forces:t9:o2:1
# text = A steel spoon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	spoon	spoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A nickel washer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:51-forces:t9:o3:1
# text = A nickel washer
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	nickel	nickel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	washer	washer	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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A gold ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:51-forces:t9:o4:1
# text = A gold ring
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ring	ring	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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**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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