--- title: Ascertain the approximate factor by which the weight of a body incre… — Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, t… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the approximate factor by which the weight of a body increases when each of its three dimensions is doubled. Exam question 4 of lesson 41 «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/41-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people/e4/) [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/) / [Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, t…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/41-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Ear… Ascertain the approximate factor by which the weight of a body increases when each of its three dimensions is doubled. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, weight · **What happens:** ascertain, increase, double · **To what, where:** approximate factor, each This is exam question 4 of lesson 41 «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/41-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:41-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the approximate factor by which the weight of a body increases when each of its three dimensions is doubled. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 approximate approximate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 factor factor NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 increases increase VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 13 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 14 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 dimensions dimension NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 doubled double VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the approximate factor | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent factor=Topic | | 2 | **increase** | present | the weight of a body | | | | | by the approximate factor | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **double** | present · passive | | each | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | 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} Two ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:41-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people:e4:o1:1 # text = Two 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Eight ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:41-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people:e4:o2:1 # text = Eight 1 Eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Sixteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:41-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people:e4:o3:1 # text = Sixteen 1 Sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Four ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:41-alice-s-fall-and-sizes-falling-the-centre-of-the-earth-giants-and-tiny-people:e4:o4:1 # text = Four 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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