Test 12 · ★★★ · Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet

how'd people send a long msg before the telegraph

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: 'd people · What happens: send · To what, where: long msg

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 'd	advmod
2	'd	'd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 send	nsubj
4	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 msg	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 msg	amod
7	msg	msg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	obj
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 telegraph	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 telegraph	det
10	telegraph	telegraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	'd people	a long msg			before the telegraph		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent msg=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 · ✓ the right answer

Someone had to carry it by foot, horse or ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 carry	mark
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carry	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 foot	case
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 horse	punct
9	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 foot	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 ship	cc
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 foot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Someone						tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive	Someone not said here	it				by foot and horse or ship	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

They sent it by radio

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 radio	case
5	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	They	it				by radio	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

They just rang them up on the telephone from home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rang	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 rang	advmod
3	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rang	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 rang	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 telephone	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 telephone	det
8	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rang	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring up	past	They	them = they		the telephone		from home	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 4

They emailed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 emailed	nsubj
2	emailed	email	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 emailed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	email	past	They	it					tree rules

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