Test 9 · ★★ · Staying safe and kind online

Why do many apps say users must be at least 13?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: many apps · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: users, 13, least · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 59 «Staying safe and kind online» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	advcl
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 apps	amod
4	apps	app	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	users	user	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	obj
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 13	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 13	cop
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 least	case
10	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 13	nmod
11	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 users	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present	many apps not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	many apps	users		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent user=Topic
3	is a	must		13	least	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

Phones do not work for younger children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 children	amod
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	present · do-support	Phones					for younger children	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for child=Beneficiary

Option 2

It is only to sell more phones to older children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sell	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sell	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 sell	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sell	mark
5	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 phones	amod
7	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sell	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 children	case
9	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 children	amod
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					to older children; sell property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Younger children need extra protection from what they might meet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 protection	amod
5	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 need	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 meet	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 meet	aux
10	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Younger children	extra protection					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot protection=Theme
2	meet	might	children = child						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Children under 13 cannot read well enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 read	nsubj
2	under	under	ADP	_	3 13	case
3	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Children	nmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 read	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 read	advmod
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 read	advmod
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read	can	Children under 13					enough, well property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/59-staying-safe-and-kind-online/t9/