Test 15 · ★ · Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness

Why did the boy in Scotland fall asleep in class?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: do, fall · To what, where: class

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 216 «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» 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	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Scotland	case
6	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod
7	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fall	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 class	case
10	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	present	the boy in Scotland			class		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location

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

Phones make you hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Phones	you				hungry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product

Option 2

Screens make eyes grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Screens	eyes					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	eyes not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Phones are heavy to carry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heavy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heavy	cop
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 carry	mark
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heavy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Phones					heavy property	tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive	Phones not said here						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Using his phone in bed kept him awake too late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	csubj
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 phone	nmod:poss
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 bed	case
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obl
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	obj
8	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kept	xcomp
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 late	advmod
10	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kept	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		his phone		bed			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient
2	keep	past	Using	him = he				awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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