Test 5 · ★★ · Swings and pendulums
Your grandfather clock runs slow. Which way do you move the weight?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandfather clock, way · What happens: run, move · To what, where: weight
This is test 5 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Your grandfather clock runs slow.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 clock | nmod:poss |
| 2 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clock | compound |
| 3 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 runs | nsubj |
| 4 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | slow | slow | ADV | _ | 4 runs | advmod |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 runs | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | Your grandfather clock | slow property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Sentence 2: Which way do you move the weight?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 move | nsubj |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 weight | det |
| 7 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 move | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present · do-support | which way | the weight | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Down, to make the pendulum longer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Down | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pendulum | det |
| 6 | pendulum | pendulum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | the pendulum | down property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pendulum=Product |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Up, to make the pendulum shorter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Up | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pendulum | det |
| 6 | pendulum | pendulum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | the pendulum | short property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pendulum=Product |
Option 3
Nowhere, clean the face
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 clean | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nowhere | punct |
| 3 | clean | clean | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 face | det |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clean | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clean | imperative | you not said here | the face | nowhere property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
Option 4
Off, to make it lighter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 4 make | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Off | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | it | light, off property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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