Test 14 · ★ · Time, routines and sleep

been up til 1am all week, why can't i focus

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i · What happens: be, not focus · To what, where: week

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 39 «Time, routines and sleep» 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	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 week	cop
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 been	compound:prt
3	til	till	ADP	_	5 am	case
4	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 am	nummod
5	am	a.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 been	obl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 week	det
7	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 focus	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 focus	advmod
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 focus	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 focus	advmod
12	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 focus	nsubj
13	focus	focus	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 week	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	participle		all week					tree rules
2	not focus	can	i						vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

You should stay up later to get used to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stay	compound:prt
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 stay	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stay	advcl
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 get	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	stay up	should	You		late property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive	You not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	use	participle	You not said here	it		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Focus has nothing to do with sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Focus	focus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 has	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 sleep	case
7	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Focus	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	Focus not said here	nothing not said here				with sleep	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

You need more fizzy drinks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 fizzy	advmod
4	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drinks	amod
5	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	You	fizzy drinks					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Your brain needs more sleep to work well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brain	nmod:poss
2	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sleep	amod
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 work	mark
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needs	xcomp
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Your brain	more sleep					tree rules
2	work not said to happen	to-infinitive	more sleep not said here					well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

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