Test 14 · ★ · Screens, sleep, fairness and differences

playing till midnight every night, its fine

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: play

This is test 14 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 fine	csubj
2	till	till	ADP	_	3 midnight	case
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 playing	obl
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 playing	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 playing	punct
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fine	nmod:poss
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund					midnight; night		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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

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

Stop earlier, late screens wreck your sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Stop	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wreck	punct
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 screens	amod
5	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wreck	nsubj
6	wreck	wreck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	parataxis
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sleep	nmod:poss
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wreck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		early property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	wreck	present	late screens	your sleep		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient
3	sleep		your			nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Only weekends count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 weekends	advmod
2	weekends	weekend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 count	nsubj
3	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	present	weekends						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

You need less sleep with games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sleep	amod
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 games	case
6	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	You	less sleep				with games	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=Theme

Option 4

It's fine as long as the screen is turned down dim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 turned	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 turned	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 screen	det
8	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	aux:pass
10	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fine	advcl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 turned	compound:prt
12	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 turned	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	turn down	present · passive		the screen				dim, long property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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