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title: Your grandfather clock runs slow. Which way do you move the weight? — Swings and pendulums · tree and pragmatics
description: Your grandfather clock runs slow. Which way do you move the weight? Test 5 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Swings and pendulums

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Your grandfather clock runs slow. Which way do you move the weight?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grandfather clock, way · **What happens:** run, move · **To what, where:** weight

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/physics/10-swings-and-pendulums/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your grandfather clock runs slow.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:10-swings-and-pendulums:t5:1
# text = Your grandfather clock runs slow.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	slow	slow	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which way do you move the weight?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:10-swings-and-pendulums:t5:2
# text = Which way do you move the weight?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Down, to make the pendulum longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:10-swings-and-pendulums:t5:o1:1
# text = Down, to make the pendulum longer
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pendulum	pendulum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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Up, to make the pendulum shorter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:10-swings-and-pendulums:t5:o2:1
# text = Up, to make the pendulum shorter
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pendulum	pendulum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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Nowhere, clean the face

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:10-swings-and-pendulums:t5:o3:1
# text = Nowhere, clean the face
1	Nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	clean	clean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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Off, to make it lighter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:10-swings-and-pendulums:t5:o4:1
# text = Off, to make it lighter
1	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | 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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