Test 6 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

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

Screens make you blink every second

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	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	blink	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 second	det
6	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Screens	you					tree rules
2	blink	infinitive	you not said here				second		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

You blink more while staring at a screen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 blink	nsubj
2	blink	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 blink	advmod
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 staring	mark
5	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 blink	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 screen	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 screen	det
8	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blink	present	You						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stare	gerund	You not said here					at a screen	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme

Option 3

Blinking makes your eyes drier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blinking	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	drier	dry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blink	gerund							vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		your eyes				dry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You blink less while staring at a screen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 blink	nsubj
2	blink	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 blink	advmod
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 staring	mark
5	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 blink	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 screen	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 screen	det
8	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blink	present	You					less property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stare	gerund	You not said here					at a screen	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=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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