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Test 10 · ★★★ · Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet

A message travels around the Earth's equator, about 40,000 kilometres, at the speed of light. About how long would it take?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: message · What happens: travel, take · To what, where: 40,000 kilometres, equator, speed

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet» of the world 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: A message travels around the Earth's equator, about 40,000 kilometres, at the speed of light.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 message	det
2	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 travels	nsubj
3	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	around	around	ADP	_	8 equator	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 equator	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Earth	case
8	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 travels	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kilometres	punct
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 40,000	advmod
11	40,000	40000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 kilometres	nummod
12	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 travels	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 speed	punct
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 speed	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 speed	det
16	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 travels	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 light	case
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 speed	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 travels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	a message	40,000 kilometres		the Earth's equator		at the speed of light	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around equator=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: About how long would it take?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADP	_	3 long	case
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 take	obl
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	expl
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would		speed					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

About one minute and a half

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 minute	nummod
3	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 half	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 half	det
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 minute	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Around one hour, maybe more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Around	around	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hour	nummod
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hour	punct
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 hour	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Roughly ten whole seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roughly	roughly	ADV	_	2 ten	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 seconds	nummod
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seconds	amod
4	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A small part of a second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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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