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Test 2 · ★★ · Inventions, computers and the internet

A ship's anchor damages an undersea cable. What happens to internet messages that used it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: anchor, internet messages · What happens: damage, happen, use · To what, where: undersea cable, cable

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 59 «Inventions, computers 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 ship's anchor damages an undersea cable.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 anchor	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 ship	case
4	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 damages	nsubj
5	damages	damage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cable	det
7	undersea	undersea	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cable	amod
8	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 damages	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 damages	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	present	a ship's anchor	a undersea cable					vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument cable=Patient

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: What happens to internet messages that used it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 messages	case
4	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 messages	compound
5	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happens	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 used	nsubj
7	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 messages	acl:relcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 used	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						to internet messages	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	past	internet messages	cable					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The messages turn into sound waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 messages	det
2	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 waves	case
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waves	compound
6	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the messages			sound waves			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into wave=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Routers send the packets along other paths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Routers	router	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 send	nsubj
2	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 packets	det
4	packets	packet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 send	obj
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 paths	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 paths	amod
7	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 send	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	Routers	the packets				along other paths	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent packet=Theme

Option 3

The messages sink to the seabed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 messages	det
2	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sink	nsubj
3	sink	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 seabed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seabed	det
6	seabed	seabed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	present	the messages					to the seabed	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

All of the internet in the world stops for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 internet	det
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 internet	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 internet	det
4	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stops	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 internet	nmod
8	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 stops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	all internet in the world						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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