Test 16 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes

neck hurts from looking down at my phone, why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: neck · What happens: hurt, look down

This is test 16 · ★ 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	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hurts	nsubj
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	4 looking	mark
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hurts	advcl
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 phone	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 phone	nmod:poss
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 why	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looking	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 hurts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	neck						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	look down	gerund	neck not said here					at my phone; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme

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 send out heat that hurts your neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 send	nsubj
2	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 send	compound:prt
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 send	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 hurts	nsubj
6	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heat	acl:relcl
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neck	nmod:poss
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send out	present	Phones	heat					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	hurt	present	heat	your neck					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bending your head down strains your neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bending	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 strains	csubj
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bending	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	1 Bending	compound:prt
5	strains	strain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neck	nmod:poss
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strains	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend down	gerund		your head					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material
2	strain	present	Bending	your neck					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent neck=Source

Option 3

Screens make muscles weaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Screens	muscles				weak property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset muscle=Product

Option 4

Your neck is too short for phones

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 neck	nmod:poss
2	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 short	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 short	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 short	advmod
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 phones	case
7	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 short	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your neck					for phones; short property	tree rules

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