Test 10 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes
been on the ipad ages, eyes feel dry
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eyes · What happens: be, feel · To what, where: ipad ages
This is test 10 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 feel | advcl |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ages | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ages | det |
| 4 | ipad | iPad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ages | compound |
| 5 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 been | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feel | punct |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feel | nsubj |
| 8 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feel | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | participle | eyes not said here | on the ipad ages | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on age=Location | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | eyes | dry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Look at something far away and blink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 something | case |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Look | obl |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 away | advmod |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 Look | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 blink | cc |
| 7 | blink | blink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at something; away property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blink | infinitive | you not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Stare harder at the screen so your eyes stay open
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stare | stare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Stare | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 screen | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 screen | det |
| 5 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stare | obl |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stay | nsubj |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stare | advcl |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stay | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | imperative | you not said here | at the screen; hard property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | present | your eyes | open property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Hold it closer to your eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Hold | obj |
| 3 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Hold | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 closer | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | imperative | you not said here | it | close property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
Turn the brightness right up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brightness | det |
| 3 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turn | obj |
| 4 | right | right | ADV | _ | 5 up | advmod |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Turn | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | imperative | you not said here | the brightness | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brightness=Theme |
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