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title: door handle far from the hinge, why tho — Simple machines and how they help · tree and pragmatics
description: door handle far from the hinge, why tho Test 10 · ★ of lesson 52 «Simple machines and how they help» 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 10 · ★ · Simple machines and how they help

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door handle far from the hinge, why tho

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** handle

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 52 «Simple machines and how they help» 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/52-simple-machines/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:52-simple-machines:t10:1
# text = door handle far from the hinge, why tho
1	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	handle	handle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hinge	hinge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
9	tho	tho	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **handle** | present |  |  |  |  |  | far, tho *property* | vn hold-15.1 «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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It looks nicer on the door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:52-simple-machines:t10:o1:1
# text = It looks nicer on the door
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nicer	nice	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | It |  |  |  |  | on the door; nice *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on door=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It stops the door from closing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:52-simple-machines:t10:o2:1
# text = It stops the door from closing
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	closing	closing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | It | the door |  | closing |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer door=Beneficiary from closing=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The hinge would break if the handle were any nearer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:52-simple-machines:t10:o3:1
# text = The hinge would break if the handle were any nearer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hinge	hinge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	any	any	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | would | the hinge |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the handle |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Pushing further from the pivot needs less force

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:52-simple-machines:t10:o4:1
# text = Pushing further from the pivot needs less force
1	Pushing	push	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	further	further	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pivot	pivot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | from the pivot; further *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from pivot=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | Pushing | less force |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot force=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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