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Test 9 · ★ · Phones and how a call travels

In a cartoon, a voice travels down a wire as a little shouting man. What really travels?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: voice · What happens: travel · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a voice travels down a wire as a little shouting man.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 travels	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 voice	det
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 travels	nsubj
7	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	10 wire	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wire	det
10	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 travels	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	15 man	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
14	shouting	shouting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	compound
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 travels	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 travels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	a voice			a cartoon		down a wire; as a little shouting man	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Trajectory

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 really travels?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 travels	obj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 travels	advmod
3	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 travels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Trajectory

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The words written on paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 words	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 paper	case
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle		the words not said here		paper			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on paper=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Electric signals or numbers, not sound itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 signals	amod
2	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 numbers	cc
4	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 signals	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sound	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sound	advmod
7	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 signals	acl:relcl
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 sound	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sound	infinitive	Electric signals or numbers not said here	itself = it					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location itself=Theme

Option 3

A tiny copy of the person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 copy	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 copy	amod
3	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 person	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy			the person					nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Air blowing down the cable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Air	acl
3	down	down	ADP	_	5 cable	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cable	det
5	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow down	gerund	Air not said here	the cable					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cable=Patient

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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