--- title: Identify the persons who made the first powered, controlled aeroplan… — Transport: from horses to planes · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the persons who made the first powered, controlled aeroplane flight, together with the year thereof. Exam question 2 of lesson 99 «Transport: from horses to planes» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Transport: from horses to planes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Transport: from horses to planes Identify the persons who made the first powered, controlled aeroplane flight, together with the year thereof. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, persons · **What happens:** identify, make, power, control · **To what, where:** persons, first powered controlled aeroplane flight This is exam question 2 of lesson 99 «Transport: from horses to planes» 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/99-transport-horses-to-planes/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:99-transport-horses-to-planes:e2:1 # text = Identify the persons who made the first powered, controlled aeroplane flight, 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 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 amod _ _ 8 powered power VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 controlled control VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 11 aeroplane aeroplane NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 together together ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 18 thereof thereof ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the persons | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 2 | **make** | past | the persons | the first powered controlled aeroplane flight | | | year | thereof, together *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Product | | 3 | **power** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **control** | participle | | | | | | | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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} Henry Ford, in 1913 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:99-transport-horses-to-planes:e2:o1:1 # text = Henry Ford, in 1913 1 Henry Henry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Ford Ford PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1913 1913 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The Wright brothers, in 1825 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:99-transport-horses-to-planes:e2:o2:1 # text = The Wright brothers, in 1825 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Wright Wright PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1825 1825 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Karl Benz, in 1886 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:99-transport-horses-to-planes:e2:o3:1 # text = Karl Benz, in 1886 1 Karl Karl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Benz Benz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1886 1886 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The Wright brothers, in 1903 ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:99-transport-horses-to-planes:e2:o4:1 # text = The Wright brothers, in 1903 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Wright Wright PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 1903 1903 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 appos _ _ ``` 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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