--- title: Your phone is millions of times faster than a 1940s computer. What m… — Computers and the internet · tree and pragmatics description: Your phone is millions of times faster than a 1940s computer. What made that possible? Test 8 · ★ 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/) / [Computers and the internet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Computers and the internet Your phone is millions of times faster than a 1940s computer. What made that possible? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** phone · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** that This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 36 «Computers and the internet» of the history 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your phone is millions of times faster than a 1940s computer. ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:t8:1 # text = Your phone is millions of times faster than a 1940s computer. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 1940s 1940 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 11 compound _ _ 11 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Your phone | | | | | than a 1940s computer; millions of times *obl:unmarked*; fast *property* | 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. *Sentence 2:* What made that possible? ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:t8:2 # text = What made that possible? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 obj _ _ 4 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | | that | | | | possible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material that=Product | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Many more light bulbs ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:t8:o1:1 # text = Many more light bulbs 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 3 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 bulbs bulb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Better steam engines ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:t8:o2:1 # text = Better steam engines 1 Better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 2 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 engines engine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Building much bigger rooms ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:t8:o3:1 # text = Building much bigger rooms 1 Building build VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 much much ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | gerund | | bigger rooms | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset room=Product | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The microchip ```conllu # sent_id = question:history:36-computers-and-the-internet:t8:o4:1 # text = The microchip 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 microchip microchip NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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