--- title: Your bag of shopping is heavy on the left. Which way do you lean? — Balance: the centre of gravity · tree and pragmatics description: Your bag of shopping is heavy on the left. Which way do you lean? Test 8 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/t8/) [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/) / [Balance: the centre of gravity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Balance: the centre of gravity Your bag of shopping is heavy on the left. Which way do you lean? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bag, way · **What happens:** be, lean · **To what, where:** left This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your bag of shopping is heavy on the left. ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity:t8:1 # text = Your bag of shopping is heavy on the left. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 shopping shopping NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Your bag of shopping | | | the left | | heavy *property* | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which way do you lean? ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity:t8:2 # text = Which way do you lean? 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 lean lean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lean** | present · do-support | which way | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} You do not need to lean ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity:t8:o1:1 # text = You do not need to lean 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 lean lean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | You | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **lean** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} To the right ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity:t8:o2:1 # text = To the right 1 To to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Forwards ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity:t8:o3:1 # text = Forwards 1 Forwards forward NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} To the left ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:8-balance-the-centre-of-gravity:t8:o4:1 # text = To the left 1 To to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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