Exam question 2 · Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet
Identify the person who patented the telephone, together with the year thereof.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, patent · To what, where: person, telephone
This is exam question 2 of lesson 100 «Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet» of the world 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 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 patented | nsubj |
| 5 | patented | patent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 person | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 telephone | det |
| 7 | telephone | telephone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 patented | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 together | punct |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 1 Identify | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obl |
| 13 | thereof | thereof | ADV | _ | 1 Identify | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | 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 person | year | thereof, together property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme | ||
| 2 | patent | past | the person | the telephone | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telephone=Theme |
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
Tim Berners-Lee, in 1989
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tim | Tim | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Berners | Berners | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tim | flat |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lee | punct |
| 4 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tim | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 1989 | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 1989 | case |
| 7 | 1989 | 1989 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Tim | list |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Alexander Graham Bell, in 1876
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Graham | Graham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alexander | flat |
| 3 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alexander | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 1876 | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1876 | case |
| 6 | 1876 | 1876 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Alexander | list |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Alexander Graham Bell, in 1840
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Graham | Graham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alexander | flat |
| 3 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alexander | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 1840 | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1840 | case |
| 6 | 1840 | 1840 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Alexander | acl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Guglielmo Marconi, in 1901
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guglielmo | Guglielmo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Marconi | Marconi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Guglielmo | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 1901 | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1901 | case |
| 5 | 1901 | 1901 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Guglielmo | nmod:unmarked |
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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