Test 6 · ★ · Balance: the centre of gravity

What would happen to a ship with all its heavy cargo stacked high on deck?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, stack · To what, where: heavy cargo, deck

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 8 «Balance: the centre of gravity» 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 ship	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ship	det
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 cargo	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 cargo	det:predet
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cargo	nmod:poss
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cargo	amod
11	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
12	stacked	stack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cargo	acl
13	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 stacked	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 deck	case
15	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stacked	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a ship; with ship's heavy cargo	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stack	participle		ship's heavy cargo not said here		deck			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on deck=Destination

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 go 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 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	It					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would be safer in a storm

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	4 safer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 safer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 safer	cop
4	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 storm	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 storm	det
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 safer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It			a storm		safe property	tree rules

Option 3

It would float much 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 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 higher	advmod
5	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 float	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	would	It						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would roll over more easily in a storm

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 roll	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 roll	aux
3	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 easily	advmod
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 roll	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 storm	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 storm	det
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roll	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll over	would	It			a storm		easily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in storm=Trajectory

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