Exam question 3 · Screens, eyes and sleep

Identify the activity which research suggests diminishes the risk of short sight developing in childhood.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, research, activity, short sight · What happens: identify, suggest, diminish, develop, risk · To what, where: risk, childhood, short sight

This is exam question 3 of lesson 35 «Screens, eyes and sleep» of the medicine 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	3 activity	det
3	activity	activity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 diminishes	nsubj
4	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	5 research	det
5	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 suggests	nsubj
6	suggests	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 activity	acl:relcl
7	diminishes	diminish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 risk	det
9	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 diminishes	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sight	case
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sight	amod
12	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 risk	nmod
13	developing	develop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sight	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 childhood	case
15	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 developing	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	suggest speech: suggest	present	which research			vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	diminish	present	the activity	the risk of short sight		vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer risk=Patient
4	develop	gerund	short sight not said here		childhood	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in childhood=Location
5	risk			short sight		nom risk «state transitive»: of=patient

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

Viewing screens at close range

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Viewing	view	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Viewing	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 range	case
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 range	amod
5	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Viewing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	view	gerund		screens		close range			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer screen=Stimulus

Option 2

Reading in dim light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 light	case
3	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 light	amod
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Reading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund				dim light			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Wearing tinted spectacles indoors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	tinted	tint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 spectacles	amod
3	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wearing	obj
4	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	1 Wearing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	gerund		tinted spectacles				indoors property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent spectacle=Source
2	tint	participle							vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Time spent outdoors in daylight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Time	acl
3	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	_	2 spent	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 daylight	case
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	participle		Time not said here		daylight		outdoors property	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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