Test 10 · ★★ · Computers and screens

«why do I need a long password, short ones are easier, duh» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, short ones, best answer · What happens: need, be · To what, where: long password

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 36 «Computers and screens» 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 need	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 need	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 password	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 password	amod
8	password	password	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 easier	punct
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 easier	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 easier	cop
13	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 need	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 duh	punct
15	duh	duh	INTJ	_	17 What	discourse
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 duh	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 easier	obl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 What	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 answer	det
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 answer	amod
21	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 What	nsubj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present · do-support	I	a long password		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot password=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	short ones		easy property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer			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

Length does not matter at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Length			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Long ones are much harder for strangers to guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ones	amod
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harder	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 harder	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 harder	advmod
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 strangers	case
7	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harder	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 guess	mark
9	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 harder	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Long ones					for strangers; hard property	tree rules
2	guess	to-infinitive	Long ones not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Short ones are harder to guess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ones	amod
2	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 harder	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 harder	cop
4	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 guess	mark
6	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 harder	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Short ones					hard property	tree rules
2	guess	to-infinitive	Short ones not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Long passwords slow the computer down every time you log in to a game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 passwords	amod
2	passwords	password	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slow	nsubj
3	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 computer	det
5	computer	computer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slow	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	3 slow	compound:prt
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slow	obl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 log	nsubj
10	log	log	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 time	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	10 log	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 game	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 game	det
14	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 log	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	present	Long passwords	the computer			time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent computer=Patient
2	log in	present	you	every time not said here				to a game	vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Location

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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