Test 13 · ★★★ · Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet

Leo says Tim Berners-Lee invented the phone. true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo, Tim · What happens: say, invent · To what, where: phone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★★ 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	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Tim	Tim	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 invented	nsubj
4	Berners	Berners	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Tim	flat
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Lee	punct
6	Lee	Lee	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Tim	flat
7	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 phone	det
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 invented	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 invented	punct
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 invented	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Leo						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	invent	past	Tim	the phone				true property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Result

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

Yes, and also the radio

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 radio	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 radio	cc
4	also	also	ADV	_	6 radio	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 radio	det
6	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

No, he invented the telegraph

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 invented	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 invented	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 invented	nsubj
4	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 telegraph	det
6	telegraph	telegraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invented	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past	he	the telegraph					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telegraph=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, he invented the World Wide Web; Bell patented the telephone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 invented	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 invented	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 invented	nsubj
4	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Web	det
6	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Web	compound
7	Wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Web	amod
8	Web	Web	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 invented	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 patented	punct
10	Bell	Bell	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 patented	nsubj
11	patented	patent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 invented	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 telephone	det
13	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 patented	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past	he	the World Wide Web					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Result
2	patent	past	Bell	the telephone					vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telephone=Theme

Option 4

Yes, he made the first phone in 1876

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 phone	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 phone	amod
7	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 1876	case
9	1876	1876	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	he	the first phone		1876			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Product

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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