--- title: Identify the individual to whom the discovery of radioactivity in th… — Explorers, scientists and inventors · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the individual to whom the discovery of radioactivity in the year 1896 is properly attributed. Exam question 2 of lesson 20 «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/e2/) [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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/) / [Explorers, scientists and inventors](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Explorers, scientists and inventors Identify the individual to whom the discovery of radioactivity in the year 1896 is properly attributed. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, attribute, discover · **To what, where:** individual, discovery, radioactivity This is exam question 2 of lesson 20 «Explorers, scientists and inventors» of the myths 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/myths/20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors:e2:1 # text = Identify the individual to whom the discovery of radioactivity in the year 1896 is properly attributed. 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 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 1 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 discovery discovery NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 radioactivity radioactivity NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 1896 1896 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 flat _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 15 properly properly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 attributed attribute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 to be ADJ»: agent=Agent individual=Theme to whom=be' | | 2 | **attribute** | present · passive | | the discovery of radioactivity in the year | | | | properly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **discover** | | | radioactivity in the year | | | | | nom discovery «act transitive»: of=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Henri Becquerel ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors:e2:o1:1 # text = Henri Becquerel 1 Henri Henri PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Becquerel Becquerel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Marie Curie ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors:e2:o2:1 # text = Marie Curie 1 Marie Marie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Curie Curie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Galileo Galilei ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors:e2:o3:1 # text = Galileo Galilei 1 Galileo Galileo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Galilei Galilei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Albert Einstein ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:20-explorers-scientists-and-inventors:e2:o4:1 # text = Albert Einstein 1 Albert Albert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Einstein Einstein PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` 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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