Test 2 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes

Why does the 20-20-20 rule ask you to look far away and not at another close thing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do, ask, look · To what, where: 20-20-20 rule, you

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ask	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rule	det
4	20-20-20	20-20-20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 rule	nummod
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 ask	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ask	xcomp
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 away	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	9 look	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thing	cc
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 thing	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 thing	case
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 thing	det
16	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 thing	amod
17	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 away	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	the 20-20-20 rule			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	present		you		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	look not said to happen	to-infinitive			away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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

Far things are brighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brighter	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brighter	cop
4	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Far things					bright property	tree rules

Option 2

Close things are bad for your eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bad	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bad	cop
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Close things					for your eyes; bad property	tree rules

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

Far looking lets the focusing muscles relax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 looking	advmod
2	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lets	advcl
3	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 muscles	det
5	focusing	focus	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 muscles	amod
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 relax	nsubj
7	relax	relax	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	gerund		far property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	let	present			tree rules
3	focus	gerund			vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	relax	infinitive	the focusing muscles		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It is a rule with no reason, made up by somebody long ago

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	4 rule	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rule	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rule	det
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 reason	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 reason	det
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rule	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 made	compound:prt
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 somebody	case
12	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 made	obl
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 ago	advmod
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rule				with no reason	tree rules
2	make up	participle		a rule not said here				by somebody; ago property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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.

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