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title: Mum yawning at breakfast: "Shouldn't have watched three episodes." W… — Screens, diets, sofas and late nights · tree and pragmatics
description: Mum yawning at breakfast: "Shouldn't have watched three episodes." What is the link? Test 5 of lesson 29 «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 5 · Screens, diets, sofas and late nights

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Mum yawning at breakfast: "Shouldn't have watched three episodes." What is the link?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mum, link · **What happens:** yawn, not watch, be · **To what, where:** breakfast, three episodes

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This is test 5 of lesson 29 «Screens, diets, sofas and late nights» of the adult life 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum yawning at breakfast: "Shouldn't have watched three episodes."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights:t5:1
# text = Mum yawning at breakfast: "Shouldn't have watched three episodes."
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	yawning	yawn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	episodes	episode	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yawn** | gerund | Mum |  |  | breakfast |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **watch** *in a quote* | should · perfect | Mum *not said here* | three episodes |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent episode=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is the link?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights:t5:2
# text = What is the link?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	link	link	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the link |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Watching TV always makes adults hungry in the morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights:t5:o1:1
# text = Watching TV always makes adults hungry in the morning
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  | TV |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | Watching | adults |  |  | morning | always, hungry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset adult=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The programme was about yawning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights:t5:o2:1
# text = The programme was about yawning
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	programme	programme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	yawning	yawn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yawn** | past · progressive | the programme |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She did not watch anything last night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights:t5:o3:1
# text = She did not watch anything last night
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **watch** | past · do-support | She | anything |  |  | night |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Staying up late watching TV made her tired

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights:t5:o4:1
# text = Staying up late watching TV made her tired
1	Staying	stay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
5	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund |  | TV |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tv=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | Staying | her *= she* |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |

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**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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