Test 10 · Staying up, screens and coming home late

Which is TRUE about bedtime rules?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 10 of lesson 348 «Staying up, screens and coming home late» 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	_	6 rules	case
5	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	compound
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 TRUE	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about bedtime rules; 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

They're just for grown-ups' quiet

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	9 quiet	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 quiet	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	9 quiet	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	9 quiet	case
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ups	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 quiet	nmod:poss
8	'	's	PART	_	7 ups	case
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	They					quiet property	tree rules

Option 2

Children need less sleep than adults, so they're for the grown-ups

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sleep	amod
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 adults	case
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ups	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	15 ups	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ups	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 ups	cop
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 ups	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ups	det
13	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ups	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 grown	punct
15	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	Children	less sleep	than adults	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sleep=Theme
2	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	Children = child		for the grown ups	tree rules

Option 3

They don't matter on school nights

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	4 matter	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 nights	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nights	compound
7	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	They				night		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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

They help children get the sleep they need to learn

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 help	nsubj
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 help	obj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 help	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sleep	det
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 need	nsubj
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sleep	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 learn	mark
10	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	present	They	children	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	get	infinitive	children not said here	the sleep	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus
3	need	present	children = child	the sleep not said here	tree rules
4	learn not said to happen	to-infinitive	the sleep not said here		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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