--- title: In a cartoon, a voice travels down a wire as a little shouting man.… — Phones and how a call travels · tree and pragmatics description: In a cartoon, a voice travels down a wire as a little shouting man. What really travels? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 35 «Phones and how a call travels» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/t9/) [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/) / [Technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/) / [Phones and how a call travels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Phones and how a call travels In a cartoon, a voice travels down a wire as a little shouting man. What really travels? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** voice · **What happens:** travel · **To what, where:** cartoon This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 35 «Phones and how a call travels» of the technology 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/technology/35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a voice travels down a wire as a little shouting man. ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t9:1 # text = In a cartoon, a voice travels down a wire as a little shouting man. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 down down ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wire wire NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 shouting shouting NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | present | a voice | | | a cartoon | | down a wire; as a little shouting man | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Trajectory | 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 really travels? ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t9:2 # text = What really travels? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 obj _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | present | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Trajectory | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The words written on paper ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t9:o1:1 # text = The words written on paper 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | participle | | the words *not said here* | | paper | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on paper=Destination | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Electric signals or numbers, not sound itself ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t9:o2:1 # text = Electric signals or numbers, not sound itself 1 Electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 signals signal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl:relcl _ _ 8 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **sound** | infinitive | Electric signals or numbers *not said here* | itself *= it* | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location itself=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} A tiny copy of the person ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t9:o3:1 # text = A tiny copy of the person 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 copy copy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **copy** | | | the person | | | | | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Air blowing down the cable ```conllu # sent_id = question:technology:35-phones-and-how-a-call-travels:t9:o4:1 # text = Air blowing down the cable 1 Air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 blowing blow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 3 down down ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blow down** | gerund | Air *not said here* | the cable | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cable=Patient | **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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