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description: Identify the individual credited by many with the composition of the first computer program. Exam question 1 of lesson 36 «Computers and the internet» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Computers and the internet

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Identify the individual credited by many with the composition of the first computer program.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, credit · **To what, where:** individual

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 36 «Computers and the internet» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:e1:1
# text = Identify the individual credited by many with the composition of the first computer program.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	individual	individual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	credited	credit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
13	computer	computer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	program	program	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the individual |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent individual=Theme |
| 2 | **credit** | participle |  | the individual *not said here* |  |  |  | by many; with the composition of the first computer program | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with composition=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Alan Mathison Turing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:e1:o1:1
# text = Alan Mathison Turing
1	Alan	Alan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Mathison	Mathison	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Turing	Turing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Ada Lovelace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:e1:o2:1
# text = Ada Lovelace
1	Ada	Ada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Lovelace	Lovelace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Charles Robert Darwin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:e1:o3:1
# text = Charles Robert Darwin
1	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:e1:o4:1
# text = Sir Tim Berners-Lee
1	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Tim	Tim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Berners	Berners	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
```

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

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**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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