Test 4 · ★★ · Computers and screens

«my brother reckons the cloud is a real cloud and rain might wipe my photos» What is the best correction?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, cloud, rain, best correction · What happens: reckon, be, wipe · To what, where: real cloud, photos · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	_	4 reckons	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	nsubj
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cloud	det
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cloud	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cloud	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cloud	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cloud	amod
10	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckons	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wipe	cc
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wipe	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 wipe	aux
14	wipe	wipe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cloud	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 photos	nmod:poss
16	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wipe	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 wipe	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 wipe	advcl
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 What	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 correction	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 correction	amod
22	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 What	nsubj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon in a quote	present	my brother		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	the cloud	a real cloud	tree rules
3	wipe in a quote	might	rain	my photos	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent photo=Source
4	is a	present	the best correction	a real cloud	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 · ✓ the right answer

The cloud is computers in data centres, reached through the internet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cloud	det
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 computers	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 computers	cop
4	computers	computer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 centres	case
6	data	data	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 centres	compound
7	centres	centre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 computers	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 reached	punct
9	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 computers	acl:relcl
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 internet	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 internet	det
12	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reached	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cloud	computers		data centres			tree rules
2	reach	participle		computers not said here		the internet			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through internet=Path

Option 2

Right, so save photos on sunny days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 save	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 save	advmod
4	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 save	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	imperative	you not said here	photos			day		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme

Option 3

The cloud is inside the phone's camera

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cloud	det
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 camera	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 camera	cop
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 camera	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 phone	det
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 camera	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 phone	case
8	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cloud			the phone's camera			tree rules

Option 4

Right, the cloud lives above the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 lives	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cloud	det
4	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lives	nsubj
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	above	above	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the cloud			the house			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above house=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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