Test 9 · ★★ · Lenses and eyes

How does a message cross the ocean on the internet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: message · What happens: cross · To what, where: ocean, internet

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 22 «Lenses and eyes» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 cross	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cross	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 message	det
4	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cross	nsubj
5	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ocean	det
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cross	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 internet	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 internet	det
10	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cross	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cross	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	present · do-support	a message	the ocean		the internet			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient

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

By ships carrying the letters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 ships	case
2	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ships	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 letters	det
5	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund	ships not said here	the letters					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme

Option 2

By wind blowing the signal across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	3 blowing	mark
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blowing	nsubj
3	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 signal	det
5	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blowing	obj
6	across	across	ADV	_	3 blowing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund	wind	the signal				across property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent signal=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

As flashes of light inside glass fibres under the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	2 flashes	case
2	flashes	flash	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 light	case
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flashes	nmod
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 flashes	advmod
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fibres	compound
7	fibres	fibre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flashes	conj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flashes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash		light			the sea			nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent under=place

Option 4

By sound sent through the water from one coast to another

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 sound	case
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sound	acl
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 coast	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 coast	nummod
9	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 another	case
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		sound not said here		the water		from one coast; to another	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from coast=Initial_Location to another=Destination

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