Test 3 · ★ · Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness

Which is true about children and phones?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	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 children	case
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 phones	cc
7	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 children	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about children and phones; 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

A child without a phone always falls behind at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 falls	nsubj
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 phone	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 phone	det
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 child	nmod
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 falls	advmod
7	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	7 falls	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 school	case
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall behind	present	a child without a phone			school		always, behind property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at school=Location

Option 2

Every 9-year-old has a phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 old	det
2	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 9	punct
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 phone	det
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every year old	a phone					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Each family chooses the right time for its children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chooses	nsubj
3	chooses	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chooses	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 children	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 children	nmod:poss
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chooses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	present	each family				time	for family's children	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for child=Beneficiary

Option 4

Phones are needed to make friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 needed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 needed	aux:pass
3	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needed	advcl
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present · passive		Phones					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive		friends					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product

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