Test 1 · ★★ · Swings and pendulums

My mate says if you push the swing harder it'll go back and forth way faster. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, you · What happens: say, push, go back · To what, where: swing, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Swings and pendulums» of the physics 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 push	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 push	nsubj
6	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 go	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 swing	det
8	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 push	obj
9	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 push	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 forth	cc
15	forth	forth	ADV	_	13 back	conj
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl:unmarked
17	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 go	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
19	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	push a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the swing	hard property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swing=Theme
3	go back	future	mate	way	fast property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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

Yes, hard pushes speed up the rhythm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 hard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speed	nsubj
4	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	cop
5	speed	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 speed	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rhythm	det
8	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						hard property	tree rules
2	speed up	present	hard	the rhythm					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhythm=Agent

Option 2

No, it takes much longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 takes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 takes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 takes	nsubj
4	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 takes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	it					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, twice as hard means twice as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 means	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	6 means	cc
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 as	fixed
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 means	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 twice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present						twice property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, it goes higher but takes about the same time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 goes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 goes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 goes	xcomp
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 takes	cc
7	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 goes	conj
8	about	about	ADV	_	11 time	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	it					high property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	present					time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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