Test 8 · The Industrial Revolution

mate wants to know how ppl sent messages before phones.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, ppl · What happens: want, know, send · To what, where: messages · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 30 «The Industrial Revolution» of the history 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 know	mark
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sent	advmod
6	ppl	people	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	7 sent	nsubj
7	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
8	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sent	obj
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 phones	case
10	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sent	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	want	present	mate			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	mate not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	send	past	ppl	messages	before phones	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

By letter, messenger or telegraph

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 letter	case
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 messenger	punct
4	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 letter	conj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 telegraph	cc
6	telegraph	telegraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 letter	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

By email

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 email	case
2	email	email	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

They couldn't send any

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 send	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 send	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 send	advmod
4	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 send	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not send	could	They	any					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme

Option 4

By text message

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 message	case
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 message	compound
3	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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