--- title: What would happen to a swing in a room with no air and perfect hinges? — Swings and pendulums · tree and pragmatics description: What would happen to a swing in a room with no air and perfect hinges? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Swings and pendulums» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/10-swings-and-pendulums/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/) / [Swings and pendulums](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/10-swings-and-pendulums/) / t2 # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/physics/10-swings-and-pendulums/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:10-swings-and-pendulums:t2:1 # text = What would happen to a swing in a room with no air and perfect hinges? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 swing swing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 hinges hinge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} It would swing faster and faster ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:10-swings-and-pendulums:t2:o1:1 # text = It would swing faster and faster 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 swing swing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 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 {#o2} It would swing for ever ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:10-swings-and-pendulums:t2:o2:1 # text = It would swing for ever 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 swing swing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 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 {#o3} It would swing higher and higher ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:10-swings-and-pendulums:t2:o3:1 # text = It would swing higher and higher 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 swing swing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 parataxis _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 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 {#o4} It would stop at once ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:10-swings-and-pendulums:t2:o4:1 # text = It would stop at once 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 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 | **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. 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