Test 8 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes

Why does holding a phone up at eye level help your neck?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: holding · What happens: hold up, help · To what, where: phone, eye level, neck

This is test 8 · ★ 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	3 holding	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 holding	aux
3	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 help	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 phone	det
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holding	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	3 holding	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 level	case
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 level	compound
9	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 holding	obl
10	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 neck	nmod:poss
12	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	present · do-support		a phone		eye level			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot phone=Theme
2	help	present	holding	your neck					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Beneficiary

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 makes the screen bigger

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 screen	det
4	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the screen				big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material screen=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Your head stays balanced over your neck

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 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 balanced	nsubj:pass
3	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 balanced	aux:pass
4	balanced	balance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 neck	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neck	nmod:poss
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 balanced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	balance	present · passive		Your head		your neck			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme over neck=Location

Option 3

Your arms become stronger from holding it up

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 arms	nmod:poss
2	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
3	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	xcomp
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 holding	mark
6	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 become	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 holding	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 holding	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	Your arms					strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	hold up	gerund	Your arms not said here	it					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4

The phone gets lighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the phone					light property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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