Exam question 4 · Routines, screen time and earning money

Ascertain the effect of screens late at night upon children.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, effect · To what, where: effect, screens

This is exam question 4 of lesson 264 «Routines, screen time and earning money» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	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 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 screens	case
5	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 effect	nmod
6	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Ascertain	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 children	case
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ascertain	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the effect of screens			night	upon children; late property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Topic
2	effect			screens					nom effect «phenomenon 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 · ← Mova's choice

They improve learning and concentration the next day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 improve	nsubj
2	improve	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 improve	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 concentration	cc
5	concentration	concentration	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learning	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 improve	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	present	They	learning and concentration			day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent learning=Patient

Option 2

They have no effect on sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 effect	det
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 sleep	case
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 effect	nmod

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

Option 3

Sleep is deeper and longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deeper	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 deeper	cop
3	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 longer	cc
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 deeper	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sleep is more difficult, and learning and mood suffer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 difficult	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 difficult	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 difficult	advmod
4	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 suffer	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 suffer	cc
7	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 suffer	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 mood	cc
9	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 learning	conj
10	suffer	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 difficult	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sleep					difficult property	tree rules
2	suffer	present	learning and mood						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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