Test 5 · Sleep and dreams in people

«gonna stay up all night revising for the test tmrw» Why is this a poor plan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, night, this · What happens: stay up, revise, be · To what, where: poor plan

This is test 5 of lesson 363 «Sleep and dreams in people» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 stay	punct
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 stay	dep
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stay	compound:prt
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl:unmarked
7	revising	revise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 night	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 tmrw	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tmrw	det
10	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tmrw	compound
11	tmrw	tmrw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 revising	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 stay	punct
13	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 plan	advmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 plan	cop
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 plan	nsubj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 plan	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plan	amod
18	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay up in a quote	imperative	you not said here		night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	revise in a quote	gerund	all night not said here			for the test tmrw	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	this	a poor plan			tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sleep helps the brain store what you learned, so you would remember less

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brain	det
4	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 store	nsubj
5	store	store	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 store	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 learned	nsubj
8	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remember	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 remember	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 remember	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 remember	aux
13	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	conj
14	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 remember	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	help	present	Sleep		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	store	infinitive	the brain		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	learn	past	you		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	remember	would	you	less property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Revising late at night makes your eyes stronger, but your hands get too tired to write

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revising	revise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 makes	csubj
2	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Revising	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Revising	obl
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 makes	obj
8	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 makes	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 get	cc
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 get	nsubj
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 makes	conj
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 tired	advmod
15	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 write	mark
17	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tired	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	revise	gerund			night	late property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Revising	your eyes		strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product
3	get	present	your hands			tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	write	to-infinitive	your hands not said here				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Tests are easier when you are tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 easier	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easier	cop
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 tired	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 tired	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	cop
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 easier	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Tests					easy property	tree rules
2	is	present	you					tired property	tree rules

Option 4

Sleep wipes out everything you learned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wipes	nsubj
2	wipes	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 wipes	compound:prt
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 wipes	obj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 learned	nsubj
6	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 everything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe out	present	Sleep	everything					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	learn	past	you						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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