Test 5 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes
A doctor tells a family their children should play outside more. Which is a good reason?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctor, children · What happens: tell, play, be · To what, where: family, more, good reason · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 doctor tells a family their children should play outside more.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tells | obj |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 children | nmod:poss |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 play | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 play | aux |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tells | ccomp |
| 10 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 9 play | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 play | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | a doctor | a family | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent family=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | play | should | their children | more | outside property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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.
Sentence 2: Which is a good reason?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 reason | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reason | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reason | amod |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reason | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a good reason | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Daylight time helps protect children's eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daylight | daylight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 time | amod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 helps | xcomp |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 children | case |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 protect | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Daylight time | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | protect | infinitive | Daylight time not said here | children's eyes | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Beneficiary |
Option 2
Outside air makes eyes darker
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outside | outside | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 air | amod |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Outside air | eyes | dark property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Outside play is what makes children need glasses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outside | outside | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 play | amod |
| 2 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 need | nsubj |
| 7 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 need | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Outside play | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | present | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | need | present | children | glasses | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot glass=Theme |
Option 4
Indoor air causes short sight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indoor | indoor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 air | amod |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 causes | nsubj |
| 3 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sight | amod |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 causes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | Indoor air | short sight | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sight=Patient |
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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