Test 18 · ★ · Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play

my mate says a boy played games "for 3 days straight without sleeping". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, boy · What happens: say, play, sleep, be, exaggerate · To what, where: games, prob · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 293 «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 played	nsubj
6	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
7	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 played	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 games	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 days	nummod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 played	obl
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 sleeping	advmod
13	without	without	SCONJ	_	14 sleeping	mark
14	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 played	advcl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 sleeping	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 prob	advmod
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 prob	cop
19	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
20	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	play	past	a boy	games	day		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
3	sleep in a quote	gerund	a boy not said here			straight property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		prob			tree rules
5	exaggerate	participle		prob not said here			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 screens affect sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 screens	det
2	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 affect	nsubj
3	affect	affect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 affect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affect	present	that screens	sleep					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sleep=Experiencer

Option 2

That games can be fun for hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 games	det
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fun	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fun	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fun	cop
5	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 hours	case
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fun	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	that games				hour	fun property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The 3 days; but too much screen time does hurt sleep and mood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 days	det
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sleep	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 sleep	cc
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
8	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	compound
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hurt	nsubj:pass
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hurt	aux
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sleep	amod
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	appos
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mood	cc
14	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sleep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present · passive · do-support		much screen time					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

That boys play games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 play	nsubj
3	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	that boys	games					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

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