Exam question 1 · Swings and pendulums

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the determinant of the period of a simple pendulum of modest amplitude?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris, determine · To what, where: determinant, period

This is exam question 1 of lesson 10 «Swings and pendulums» of the physics 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 determinant	det
10	determinant	determinant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 period	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 period	det
13	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 determinant	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 pendulum	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pendulum	det
16	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pendulum	amod
17	pendulum	pendulum	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 period	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 amplitude	case
19	modest	modest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 amplitude	amod
20	amplitude	amplitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pendulum	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the determinant of the period of a simple pendulum of modest amplitude	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	determine		the period of a simple pendulum of modest amplitude		nom determinant «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its length

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 length	nmod:poss
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The mass of its bob

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mass	det
2	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 bob	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bob	nmod:poss
5	bob	bob	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mass	nmod

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

Option 3

The material of its cord

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 material	det
2	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cord	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cord	nmod:poss
5	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 material	nmod

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

Option 4

The force of the initial push

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 force	det
2	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 push	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 push	det
5	initial	initial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 push	amod
6	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 force	nmod

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.

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