Exam question 1 · Sleep and healthy eating

Identify the principal reason for which screens are set aside approximately one hour before retiring to bed.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, set, retire · To what, where: principal reason, screens

This is exam question 1 of lesson 80 «Sleep and healthy eating» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 set	obl
7	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 set	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 set	aux:pass
9	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	acl:relcl
10	aside	aside	ADV	_	9 set	advmod
11	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hour	nummod
13	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obl:unmarked
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 retiring	mark
15	retiring	retire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 set	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 bed	case
17	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 retiring	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	set	present · passive		screens	hour	for the principal reason; aside property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for which=Beneficiary
3	retire	gerund				to bed	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Their light and excitement render sleep harder to attain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 light	nmod:poss
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harder	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sleep	cc
4	excitement	excitement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	compound
5	render	render	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	compound
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	conj
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 attain	mark
9	attain	attain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 harder	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attain	to-infinitive							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	light		Their = they						nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Screens consume too much electricity at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 consume	nsubj
2	consume	consume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 electricity	amod
5	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consume	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consume	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consume	present	Screens	much electricity			night		vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Their light causes the eyes to grow tired more quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 light	nmod:poss
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 causes	nsubj
3	causes	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eyes	det
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 causes	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 grow	mark
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 causes	advcl
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grow	xcomp
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 quickly	advmod
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	present	Their light	the eyes		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition eye=Patient
2	grow	to-infinitive	Their light not said here		quickly, tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	light		Their = they			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Screens cease to function late in the evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cease	nsubj
2	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 function	mark
4	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cease	advcl
5	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 cease	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 evening	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 evening	det
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cease	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease	present	Screens				evening	late property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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