Test 2 · ★★ · Swings and pendulums

What would happen to a swing in a room with no air and perfect hinges?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen · To what, where: room

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 swing	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 swing	det
6	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 air	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 room	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hinges	cc
14	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hinges	amod
15	hinges	hinge	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 air	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a room with no air and perfect hinges		to a swing	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in room=Location

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

It would swing faster and faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swing	aux
3	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 swing	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 faster	cc
6	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 swing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	would	It					fast property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would swing for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swing	aux
3	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 ever	case
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 swing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	would	It						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

It would swing higher and higher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 swing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swing	aux
3	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 swing	parataxis
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 higher	cc
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 higher	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	would	It						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

It would stop at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It						vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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