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title: A toy car is pushed on smooth tiles and on thick carpet with the sam… — Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels · tree and pragmatics
description: A toy car is pushed on smooth tiles and on thick carpet with the same push. Where does it roll further? Test 7 · ★ 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
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# Test 7 · ★ · Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels

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A toy car is pushed on smooth tiles and on thick carpet with the same push. Where does it roll further?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** car · **What happens:** push, roll · **To what, where:** toy car, smooth tiles

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 85 «Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels» 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/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A toy car is pushed on smooth tiles and on thick carpet with the same push.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:t7:1
# text = A toy car is pushed on smooth tiles and on thick carpet with the same push.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present · passive |  | a toy car |  | smooth tiles and thick carpet with the same push |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on tile=Trajectory |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Where does it roll further?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:t7:2
# text = Where does it roll further?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | present · do-support | car |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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On the smooth tiles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:t7:o1:1
# text = On the smooth tiles
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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On the thick carpet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:t7:o2:1
# text = On the thick carpet
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	carpet	carpet	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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It cannot roll on either

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:t7:o3:1
# text = It cannot roll on either
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **roll** | can | It |  |  | either |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on either=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Exactly the same on both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:t7:o4:1
# text = Exactly the same on both
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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

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