Test 9 · ★★ · Inventions, computers and the internet

Which of these is an invention built on the telephone and the radio?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, build · To what, where: invention, telephone

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 invention	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	6 invention	case
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 invention	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 invention	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 invention	det
6	invention	invention	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 invention	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 telephone	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 telephone	det
10	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 radio	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 radio	det
13	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 telephone	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 invention	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						of a invention	tree rules
2	build	participle		a invention not said here		the telephone and the radio			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on telephone=Source

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

The printing press

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 press	det
2	printing	printing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 press	compound
3	press	press	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The candle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 candle	det
2	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The mobile phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phone	det
2	mobile	mobile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 phone	amod
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The wheel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wheel	det
2	wheel	wheel	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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