Exam question 1 · Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness

Identify the effect of the use of screens in bed upon children.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, effect, use · To what, where: effect, use, screens

This is exam question 1 of lesson 216 «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 effect	det
3	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 use	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 effect	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 screens	case
8	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 screens	nmod
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 children	case
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bed	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the effect of the use of screens in bed upon children	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent effect=Theme
2	effect			the use of screens in bed upon children	nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
3	use			screens in bed upon children	nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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 right answer

Children remain awake later and learning and mood suffer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 remain	nsubj
2	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remain	xcomp
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 remain	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 learning	cc
6	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 remain	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 mood	cc
8	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learning	conj
9	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 learning	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	remain	present	Children	awake, late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	gerund	Children not said here		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	suffer	present			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Screens in bed have no effect on sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 bed	case
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Screens	nmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 effect	det
6	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 sleep	case
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 effect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Screens in bed	no effect		sleep			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Children fall asleep sooner and more deeply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fall	nsubj
2	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fall	xcomp
4	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 fall	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 more	cc
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 sooner	conj
7	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	2 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Children					asleep, deeply, soon property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Screens in bed improve the memory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 improve	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 bed	case
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Screens	nmod
4	improve	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 memory	det
6	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 improve	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	present	Screens in bed	the memory					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent memory=Patient

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