Test 9 · ★ · Computers and the internet

Why might someone say Alan Turing is a father of computer science?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone, Alan · What happens: say, be · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Alan	Alan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 father	nsubj
6	Turing	Turing	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Alan	flat
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 father	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 father	det
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 science	case
11	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 science	compound
12	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 father	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	might	someone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Alan	a father				of computer science	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.

The options

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

His ideas about how computers work are its base

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ideas	nmod:poss
2	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 base	nsubj
3	about	about	SCONJ	_	6 work	mark
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 work	advmod
5	computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 work	nsubj
6	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 ideas	acl
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 base	cop
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 base	nmod:poss
9	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	computers						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	His ideas	its base					tree rules

Option 2

He built the very first iPhone in his garden shed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 iPhone	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 first	advmod
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 iPhone	amod
6	iPhone	iPhone	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 built	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 shed	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shed	nmod:poss
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shed	compound
10	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	He	the first iPhone		his garden shed			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iphone=Product

Option 3

He founded Microsoft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 founded	nsubj
2	founded	found	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Microsoft	Microsoft	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 founded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	found	past	He	Microsoft					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent microsoft=Patient

Option 4

He invented the web

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 invented	nsubj
2	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 web	det
4	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 invented	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past	He	the web					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Result

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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