Test 8 · ★ · Computers and the internet
Your phone is millions of times faster than a 1940s computer. What made that possible?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: phone · What happens: be, make · To what, where: that
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 36 «Computers and the internet» 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
Sentence 1: Your phone is millions of times faster than a 1940s computer.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 phone | nmod:poss |
| 2 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 faster | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 faster | cop |
| 4 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 faster | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 times | case |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 millions | nmod |
| 7 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 computer | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 computer | det |
| 10 | 1940s | 1940 | NOUN | Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card | 11 computer | compound |
| 11 | computer | computer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 faster | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 faster | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your phone | than a 1940s computer; millions of times obl:unmarked; fast 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: What made that possible?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | that | possible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material that=Product |
The options
Option 1
Many more light bulbs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bulbs | amod |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 bulbs | amod |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bulbs | compound |
| 4 | bulbs | bulb | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Better steam engines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 engines | amod |
| 2 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 engines | compound |
| 3 | engines | engine | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Building much bigger rooms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 bigger | advmod |
| 3 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 rooms | amod |
| 4 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Building | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | gerund | bigger rooms | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset room=Product |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The microchip
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 microchip | det |
| 2 | microchip | microchip | 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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