Test 1 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes
A girl in Ohio has tired eyes after a long homework session on a tablet. What would help most?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: have, help · To what, where: tired eyes
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 8 «Posture, screens and resting your eyes» 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: A girl in Ohio has tired eyes after a long homework session on a tablet.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | amod |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 session | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 session | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 session | amod |
| 11 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 session | compound |
| 12 | session | session | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 tablet | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tablet | det |
| 15 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 session | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a girl in Ohio | tired eyes | after a long homework session on a tablet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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: What would help most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 help | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | would | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Make the screen much brighter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 screen | det |
| 3 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 brighter | advmod |
| 5 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | the screen | bright property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset screen=Product |
Option 2
Rub her eyes hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rub | rub | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rub | obj |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Rub | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | imperative | you not said here | her eyes | hard property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
Option 3
Hold the tablet closer to her face so she can see
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tablet | det |
| 3 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obj |
| 4 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 tablet | amod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hold | obl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hold | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | the tablet | to her face | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tablet=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | can | she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Look out of the window at something far off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 window | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 window | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 window | det |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 something | case |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Look | obl |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 off | advmod |
| 9 | off | off | ADV | _ | 1 Look | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | imperative | you not said here | the window | something | off property | tree rules |
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