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title: You hang a heavier bag on a forcemeter. What happens? — Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels · tree and pragmatics
description: You hang a heavier bag on a forcemeter. What happens? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 85 «Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels» of the world 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 9 · ★ · Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels

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You hang a heavier bag on a forcemeter. What happens?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** hang, happen · **To what, where:** heavier bag, forcemeter

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 85 «Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels» of the world 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/world/85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You hang a heavier bag on a forcemeter.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:t9:1
# text = You hang a heavier bag on a forcemeter.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hang	hang	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	forcemeter	forcemeter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | present | You | a heavier bag |  | a forcemeter |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on forcemeter=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What happens?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:t9:2
# text = What happens?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The spring stretches further

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:t9:o1:1
# text = The spring stretches further
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | present | the spring |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The spring gets shorter and squashes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:t9:o2:1
# text = The spring gets shorter and squashes
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	squashes	squash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the spring |  |  |  |  | short *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **squash** | present | the spring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The spring stays exactly the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:t9:o3:1
# text = The spring stays exactly the same
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | the spring |  |  |  |  | same *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The spring stretches less than before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:85-pushes-pulls-friction-wheels:t9:o4:1
# text = The spring stretches less than before
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stretches	stretch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | present | the spring | less |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent less=Patient |

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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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