Test 17 · ★ · Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness

my mate says everyone in year 5 has a phone except me, literally everyone. what's probably exaggerated?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, everyone · What happens: say, have, exaggerate · To what, where: phone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 has	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 year	case
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 everyone	nmod
7	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 year	flat
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 phone	det
10	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	obj
11	except	except	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 phone	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 everyone	punct
14	literally	literally	ADV	_	15 everyone	advmod
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 phone	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 exaggerated	nsubj:pass
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 exaggerated	aux
19	probably	probably	ADV	_	20 exaggerated	advmod
20	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 says	ccomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	everyone	a phone	except me	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient
3	exaggerate	present · passive			probably 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

That some children in year 5 have their own phones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 some	nsubj
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 year	case
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 children	nmod
6	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 year	flat
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 phones	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 phones	amod
10	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	some children in year	children's own phones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient

Option 2

That phones are popular

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 phones	det
2	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 popular	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 popular	cop
4	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that phones					popular property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone; many 9–10 year olds have no phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 have	nsubj
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 olds	amod
4	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 year	nummod
5	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	6 10	case
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 9	nmod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 olds	compound
8	olds	old	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 phone	det
11	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

That families decide about phones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 families	det
2	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 decide	nsubj
3	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 phones	case
5	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 decide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	that families	phones					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent phone=Topic

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