Test 18 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes

apparently Max played his console 14 hours straight and his neck locked and he couldn't turn his head

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Max, neck · What happens: play, lock, not turn · To what, where: console, head

This is test 18 · ★ 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	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	3 played	advmod
2	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 played	nsubj
3	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 console	nmod:poss
5	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 played	obj
6	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 hours	nummod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 played	obj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 played	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 locked	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 neck	nmod:poss
11	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 locked	nsubj
12	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 played	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turn	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 turn	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 turn	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 turn	advmod
17	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 locked	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 head	nmod:poss
19	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	Max	Max's console	hour	apparently, straight property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Theme
2	lock	past	Max's neck				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	not turn	could	neck	Max's head			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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 · ← Mova's choice

It proves consoles break necks every time

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	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	consoles	console	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	nsubj
4	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp
5	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 break	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	break	present	consoles	necks			time		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient

Option 2

It means only consoles hurt necks, not phones

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 consoles	advmod
4	consoles	console	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurt	nsubj
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	ccomp
6	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurt	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 phones	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 phones	advmod
9	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 necks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hurt	past	consoles	necks and phones					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Whether or not it was 14 hours, long screen time strains your neck, so take breaks and move

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	7 hours	mark
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	1 Whether	fixed
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	1 Whether	fixed
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hours	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hours	cop
6	14	14	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 hours	nummod
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 strains	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hours	punct
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
10	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	compound
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strains	nsubj
12	strains	strain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 neck	nmod:poss
14	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strains	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 take	advmod
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 strains	conj
18	breaks	break	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 take	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 move	cc
20	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	it	14 hours	tree rules
2	strain	present	long screen time	your neck	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent neck=Source
3	take	infinitive	long screen time not said here	breaks	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme
4	move	infinitive	long screen time not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It is only a story, so posture never matters

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 story	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 story	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 matters	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 matters	advmod
8	posture	posture	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 matters	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 matters	advmod
10	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 story	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a story					tree rules
2	not matter	present	posture						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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