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description: Identify the person who patented the telephone, together with the year thereof. Exam question 2 of lesson 100 «Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Exam question 2 · Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet

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Identify the person who patented the telephone, together with the year thereof.

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

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 100 «Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet» of the world 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/world/100-communication-letters-to-internet/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet:e2:1
# text = Identify the person who patented the telephone, together with the year thereof.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	patented	patent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	telephone	telephone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	thereof	thereof	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 person |  |  | year | thereof, together *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 2 | **patent** | past | the person | the telephone |  |  |  |  | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telephone=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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Tim Berners-Lee, in 1989

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet:e2:o1:1
# text = Tim Berners-Lee, in 1989
1	Tim	Tim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Berners	Berners	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Lee	Lee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1989	1989	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
```

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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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Alexander Graham Bell, in 1876

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet:e2:o2:1
# text = Alexander Graham Bell, in 1876
1	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Graham	Graham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1876	1876	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Alexander Graham Bell, in 1840

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet:e2:o3:1
# text = Alexander Graham Bell, in 1840
1	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Graham	Graham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Bell	Bell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	1840	1840	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	acl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Guglielmo Marconi, in 1901

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet:e2:o4:1
# text = Guglielmo Marconi, in 1901
1	Guglielmo	Guglielmo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Marconi	Marconi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1901	1901	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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