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title: What would happen to a ship with all its heavy cargo stacked high on… — Balance: the centre of gravity · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a ship with all its heavy cargo stacked high on deck? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 8 «Balance: the centre of gravity» 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.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Balance: the centre of gravity

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity:t6:1
# text = What would happen to a ship with all its heavy cargo stacked high on deck?
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	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	stacked	stack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It would go faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity:t6:o1:1
# text = It would go 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	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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It would be safer in a storm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity:t6:o2:1
# text = It would be safer in a storm
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

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It would float much higher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity:t6:o3:1
# text = It would float much 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	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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It would roll over more easily in a storm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity:t6:o4:1
# text = It would roll over more easily in a storm
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	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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