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Test 4 · ★★★ · Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet

A radio signal is sent to astronauts on the Moon, about 384,000 kilometres away. Roughly how long does it take to arrive?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: send, take, arrive · To what, where: radio signal, astronauts, signal

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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 radio signal is sent to astronauts on the Moon, about 384,000 kilometres away.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 signal	det
2	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 signal	compound
3	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 astronauts	case
7	astronauts	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Moon	det
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 astronauts	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kilometres	punct
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 384,000	advmod
13	384,000	384,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 kilometres	nummod
14	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 away	obl:unmarked
15	away	away	ADV	_	5 sent	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present · passive		a radio signal	astronauts on the Moon			away property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to astronaut=Destination

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: Roughly how long does it take to arrive?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roughly	roughly	ADV	_	3 long	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 take	advmod
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres 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	to	to	PART	_	8 arrive	mark
8	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · do-support		signal				long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	arrive	to-infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

About one hour

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 hour	nummod
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A little more than one second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 little	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 more	obl:unmarked
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 second	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 second	nummod
6	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 more	nmod

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

Option 3

About one day

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 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

It arrives at exactly the same instant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrives	nsubj
2	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 instant	case
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 instant	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 instant	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 instant	amod
7	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	It			the same instant			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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