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Test 9 · ★ · Screen-time rules and arguments

Theo's console turns off after an hour by itself. Who set that?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: console · What happens: turn off, set · To what, where: that

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 421 «Screen-time rules and arguments» 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

Sentence 1: Theo's console turns off after an hour by itself.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 console	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Theo	case
3	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 turns	compound:prt
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 hour	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turns	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 itself	case
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 turns	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn off	present	Theo's console				hour	by console	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: Who set that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 set	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past		that					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient that=Result

The options

Option 1

The game company, for every child in the country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 company	det
2	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 company	compound
3	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 company	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 child	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His parents, with the parental settings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 settings	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 settings	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 settings	det
6	parental	parental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 settings	amod
7	settings	setting	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 parents	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Theo himself, to save power and the battery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Theo	Theo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 Theo	nmod:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 save	mark
5	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Theo	parataxis
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 battery	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 battery	det
9	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 power	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		power and the battery					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The console decides for itself by his age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 console	det
2	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decides	nsubj
3	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 itself	case
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 decides	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 age	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 age	nmod:poss
8	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 decides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	the console				by his age	for console	vn correspond-36.1-1 «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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