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Test 7 · ★★★ · Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet

A storm snaps a telegraph wire between two towns. Which way of sending messages still works between them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: storm, way · What happens: snap, send, work · To what, where: telegraph wire, messages

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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 storm snaps a telegraph wire between two towns.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snaps	nsubj
3	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wire	det
5	telegraph	telegraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wire	compound
6	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snaps	obj
7	between	between	ADP	_	9 towns	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 towns	nummod
9	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wire	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 snaps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	present	a storm	a telegraph wire				between two towns	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wire=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.

Sentence 2: Which way of sending messages still works between them?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 works	nsubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	4 sending	mark
4	sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 way	acl
5	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sending	obj
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 works	advmod
7	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	between	between	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 works	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 works	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	gerund	which way not said here	messages					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
2	work	present	which way				still	between messages = message	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Radio, because it needs no wire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Radio	Radio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 needs	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 needs	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 needs	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 needs	nsubj
5	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 wire	det
7	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Radio	no wire					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wire=Theme

Option 2

Morse code sent along the broken wire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Morse	morse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 code	compound
2	code	code	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 code	acl
4	along	along	ADP	_	7 wire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wire	det
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wire	amod
7	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		Morse code not said here				along the broken wire	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

A telephone on the same wire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 telephone	det
2	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 wire	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wire	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wire	amod
6	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 telephone	nmod

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

Option 4

The telegraph, by shouting louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 telegraph	det
2	telegraph	telegraph	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shouting	punct
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 shouting	mark
5	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 telegraph	conj
6	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 shouting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund						loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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