Test 6 · ★★★ · Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet

Which is a broadcast rather than a one-to-one message?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: broadcast

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 broadcast	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broadcast	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 broadcast	det
4	broadcast	broadcast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	13 message	cc
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 rather	fixed
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 message	det
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 message	nummod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 one	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 to	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 one	conj
13	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broadcast	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 broadcast	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a broadcast rather a one message					tree rules

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

A text message to one friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 message	det
2	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 message	compound
3	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 friend	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 friend	nummod
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 message	nmod

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

Option 2

A private phone call to Gran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 call	det
2	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 call	amod
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	compound
4	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Gran	case
6	Gran	Gran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 call	nmod

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

Option 3

A letter to your aunt in Wales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 aunt	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 aunt	nmod:poss
5	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 letter	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Wales	case
7	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 aunt	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A radio news programme

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 programme	det
2	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 news	compound
3	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 programme	compound
4	programme	programme	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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