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title: Which is a broadcast rather than a one-to-one message? — Communication: letters, phones, radio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is a broadcast rather than a one-to-one message? Test 6 · ★★★ 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 choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★★★ · Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet

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Which is a broadcast rather than a one-to-one message?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** broadcast

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This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Communication: letters, phones, radio and the internet» of the world 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/world/100-communication-letters-to-internet/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet:t6:1
# text = Which is a broadcast rather than a one-to-one message?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	broadcast	broadcast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	13	cc	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	conj	_	_
13	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a broadcast rather a one message |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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A text message to one friend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet:t6:o1:1
# text = A text message to one friend
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A private phone call to Gran

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet:t6:o2:1
# text = A private phone call to Gran
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Gran	Gran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A letter to your aunt in Wales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet:t6:o3:1
# text = A letter to your aunt in Wales
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Wales	Wales	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A radio news programme

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:100-communication-letters-to-internet:t6:o4:1
# text = A radio news programme
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	programme	programme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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