Test 10 · ★ · Phones and how a call travels

«nan's in Australia, call takes ages to get there, like a minute right» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nan, Australia call, minute · What happens: be, take, get · To what, where: Australia, ages

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 35 «Phones and how a call travels» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Australia	punct
2	nan	nan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Australia	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Australia	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Australia	case
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 call	compound
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Australia	punct
7	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 takes	nsubj
8	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 takes	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 takes	advcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 get	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 minute	punct
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 minute	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 minute	det
16	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 takes	obl:unmarked
17	right	right	ADV	_	21 true	advmod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 true	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 true	cop
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 minute	acl:relcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 takes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	nan		Australia			tree rules
2	take in a quote	present	Australia call	ages		minute		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme
3	get in a quote	to-infinitive	Australia call not said here		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	a minute				right, true 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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The call gets there in a fraction of a second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 call	det
2	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gets	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 fraction	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fraction	det
7	fraction	fraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 second	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 second	det
10	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fraction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the call			a fraction of a second; there			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It goes by post under the sea, so it takes about a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 post	case
4	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 takes	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 takes	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 takes	nsubj
11	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	conj
12	about	about	ADV	_	14 week	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 week	det
14	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	It			the sea		by post	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by post=Location
2	take	present	it				week		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It takes about an hour to go all the way round the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 hour	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hour	det
5	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 takes	advcl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 way	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl:unmarked
11	round	round	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It				hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	to-infinitive		all way		the world			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round world=Initial_Location

Option 4

It takes about a minute, because Australia is so far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 minute	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 minute	det
5	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 takes	punct
7	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 Australia	case
8	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 far	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 away	advmod
12	away	away	ADV	_	2 takes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It				minute	because Australia; away property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						far property	tree rules

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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