--- title: Ascertain the unit in which forces are measured. — Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the unit in which forces are measured. Exam question 3 of lesson 85 «Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels Ascertain the unit in which forces are measured. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, measure · **To what, where:** unit, forces This is exam question 3 of lesson 85 «Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels» of the world 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/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:e3:1 # text = Ascertain the unit in which forces are measured. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 unit unit NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 obl _ _ 6 forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 measured measure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the unit | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent unit=Topic | | 2 | **measure** | present · passive | | forces | | the unit | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | 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} Kilograms ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:e3:o1:1 # text = Kilograms 1 Kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Newtons ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:e3:o2:1 # text = Newtons 1 Newtons newton NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Degrees ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:e3:o3:1 # text = Degrees 1 Degrees degree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Metres ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:e3:o4:1 # text = Metres 1 Metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. - ← previous: [Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/e2/) - next →: [Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels, exam 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/e4/) - ↑ back to [Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/)