Test 2 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

Which is true about attention?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 2 of lesson 11 «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 attention	case
5	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about attention; true property	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

The brain notices everything that the eyes see around it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brain	det
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 notices	nsubj
3	notices	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 notices	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 see	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eyes	det
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	nsubj
8	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 notices	advcl
9	around	around	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	present	the brain	everything					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
2	see	present	the eyes			brain			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Attention grows stronger the more things you do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grows	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 things	det
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grows	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 things	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Attention	the more things				strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme
2	do	present	you	the more things not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

Option 3

Looking at a screen makes your hearing sharper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 makes	csubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 screen	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 screen	det
4	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	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 hearing	nmod:poss
7	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
8	sharper	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	gerund			at a screen	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme
2	make	present	Looking	your hearing	sharp property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hearing=Product
3	hear		your			nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The brain can fully focus on only a few things at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brain	det
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 focus	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 focus	aux
4	fully	fully	ADV	_	5 focus	advmod
5	focus	focus	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 things	case
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 things	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 things	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 focus	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 focus	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	focus	can	the brain					on a few things; fully property	vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on thing=Topic

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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