Test 4 · Excuse me, and good manners at the table

Why do many families keep phones and tablets away from dinner?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many families · What happens: keep · To what, where: phones

This is test 4 of lesson 127 «Excuse me, and good manners at the table» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 keep	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 families	amod
4	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tablets	cc
8	tablets	tablet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 phones	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 keep	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 dinner	case
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 away	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	many families	phones and tablets				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme

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

Meals are a time to talk with each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 time	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 time	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 talk	mark
6	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 time	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 talk	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Meals	a time					tree rules
2	talk	to-infinitive						with each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-Agent

Option 2

Because food makes screens break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 makes	mark
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 break	advcl
4	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
5	break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	food	screens					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material screen=Product
2	break	imperative	you not said here						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Because phones cannot work in the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 work	mark
2	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kitchen	det
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	can	phones					in the kitchen	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Theme

Option 4

Because games are only allowed at breakfast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 allowed	mark
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	aux:pass
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 allowed	advmod
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 breakfast	case
7	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 allowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	present · passive		games		breakfast			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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