Test 1 · ★ · Screens, sleep, fairness and differences
Ella in Denver gets cross and tired every evening after hours on her tablet. What change would help most?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ella, change · What happens: get, help · To what, where: cross
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 103 «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» of the everyday 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
Sentence 1: Ella in Denver gets cross and tired every evening after hours on her tablet.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ella | Ella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Denver | case |
| 3 | Denver | Denver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ella | nmod |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tired | cc |
| 7 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cross | conj |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 evening | det |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 hours | case |
| 11 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gets | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 tablet | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tablet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hours | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Ella in Denver | cross | evening; hour | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus |
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 change would help most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 change | det |
| 2 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 help | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | what change | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A bigger tablet with a brighter screen so it is easier on her eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tablet | det |
| 2 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 tablet | amod |
| 3 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 easier | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 screen | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 screen | det |
| 6 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 screen | amod |
| 7 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tablet | nmod |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 11 easier | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 easier | expl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 easier | cop |
| 11 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 easier | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a bigger tablet with a brighter screen | her eyes | easy property | tree rules |
Option 2
Playing on her tablet in bed instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 tablet | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tablet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Playing | obl |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 Playing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | her tablet | in bed; instead property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Skipping dinner to finish her games
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Skipping | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 finish | mark |
| 4 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Skipping | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 games | nmod:poss |
| 6 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 finish | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skip | gerund | dinner | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Agent | |||||
| 2 | finish | to-infinitive | her games | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality game=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Shorter screen time and more time outside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 time | amod |
| 2 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shorter | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 more | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Shorter | conj |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 6 time | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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