Test 6 · ★ · Breakfast, the school day and honest homework

Why do many schools keep phones off during lessons?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: many schools · What happens: keep off · To what, where: phones

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 306 «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 schools	amod
4	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 keep	compound:prt
8	during	during	ADP	_	9 lessons	case
9	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep off	present · do-support	many schools	phones			during lessons		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme

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

Phones break easily if they are used indoors, near radiators and whiteboards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 break	nsubj
2	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	easily	easily	ADV	_	2 break	advmod
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 used	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 used	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 used	aux:pass
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 break	advcl
8	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	7 used	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 radiators	punct
10	near	near	ADP	_	11 radiators	case
11	radiators	radiator	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 used	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 whiteboards	cc
13	whiteboards	whiteboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 radiators	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	Phones					easily property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	use a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		Phones = phone		radiators and whiteboards		indoors property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Teachers want to read the messages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 read	mark
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 messages	det
6	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Teachers						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	read not said to happen	to-infinitive	Teachers not said here	the messages					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Topic

Option 3

Phones make classroom lights flicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lights	compound
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flicker	nsubj
5	flicker	flicker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Phones						tree rules
2	flicker	present	classroom lights						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Phones distract from learning, and are meant for emergencies only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 distract	nsubj
2	distract	distract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 learning	case
4	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 distract	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 meant	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 meant	cc
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meant	aux:pass
8	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 distract	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 emergencies	case
10	emergencies	emergency	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 meant	obl
11	only	only	ADV	_	8 meant	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	distract	present	Phones			learning			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	mean	present · passive	Phones not said here					for emergencies	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for emergency=Attribute

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