Exam question 1 · Computers and screens

Identify the form in which a computer retains all data, including images and sound.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, computer · What happens: identify, retain · To what, where: form, data

This is exam question 1 of lesson 36 «Computers and screens» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 form	det
3	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 retains	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 computer	det
7	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 retains	nsubj
8	retains	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 form	acl:relcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 data	det
10	data	data	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 retains	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 images	punct
12	including	including	ADP	_	13 images	case
13	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 retains	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sound	cc
15	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 images	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the form					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	retain	present	a computer	all data		the form			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

Miniature printed images

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Miniature	miniature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 printed	compound
2	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 images	amod
3	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	print	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sequences of ones and zeros, corresponding to switches in the on or off state

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sequences	sequence	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 on	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 ones	case
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sequences	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 zeros	cc
5	zeros	zero	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ones	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 corresponding	punct
7	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 on	csubj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 switches	case
9	switches	switch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 corresponding	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 on	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 on	det
12	on	online	ADV	Typo=Yes	root	root
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 state	cc
14	off	off	ADP	_	15 state	case
15	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 on	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	correspond	gerund						to switches	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Letters of the alphabet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 alphabet	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 alphabet	det
4	alphabet	alphabet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Letters	nmod

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

Option 4

Recordings upon magnetic tape exclusively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Recordings	recording	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 tape	case
3	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tape	amod
4	tape	tape	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Recordings	nmod
5	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	1 Recordings	advmod

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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