Exam question 2 · Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food

Identify the principal reason for which screens are to be put away approximately one hour prior to sleep.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, put away, sleep · To what, where: principal reason, screens

This is exam question 2 of lesson 289 «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 put	obl
7	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 put	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 put	aux:pass
9	to	to	PART	_	11 put	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 put	aux:pass
11	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 put	advmod
13	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hour	nummod
15	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl:unmarked
16	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	11 put	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sleep	mark
18	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 prior	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	put away	present · passive	you not said here	screens	hour	for the principal reason; away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	sleep	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Screens must cool down before charging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cool	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cool	aux
3	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 cool	compound:prt
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 charging	mark
6	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 cool	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool down	must	Screens						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	charge	gerund	Screens not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Their light and excitement make it harder to fall asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 light	nmod:poss
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 excitement	cc
4	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	conj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 make	obj
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 make	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fall	mark
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 harder	xcomp
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fall	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Their light and excitement	excitement	hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
2	fall	to-infinitive	excitement not said here		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	light		Their = they			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Parents require them for their own use

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 require	nsubj
2	require	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 require	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 use	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 use	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 use	amod
7	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 require	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	require	present	Parents	them = they				for Parents's own use	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Precondition
2	use		Parents = parent						nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Screens consume a great deal of electricity during the night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 consume	nsubj
2	consume	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 deal	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deal	amod
5	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consume	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 electricity	case
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deal	nmod
8	during	during	ADP	_	10 night	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consume	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	present	Screens	a great deal of electricity			night		vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Asset
2	deal			electricity					nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food/e2/