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description: Mum at midnight, scrolling: "Floods, war, prices up again..." What would most help her? Test 9 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · Screens, diets, sofas and late nights

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Mum at midnight, scrolling: "Floods, war, prices up again..." What would most help her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** scroll, help · **To what, where:** her

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Mum at midnight, scrolling: "Floods, war, prices up again..."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights:t9:1
# text = Mum at midnight, scrolling: "Floods, war, prices up again..."
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	scrolling	scroll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	prices	price	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scroll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 would most help her?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights:t9:2
# text = What would most help her?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nsubj	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | would |  |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Sharing every story with the family

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights:t9:o1:1
# text = Sharing every story with the family
1	Sharing	share	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | gerund |  | every story |  |  |  | with the family | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Putting the phone down and getting some sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights:t9:o2:1
# text = Putting the phone down and getting some sleep
1	Putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | gerund |  | the phone |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Goal |
| 2 | **get** | gerund |  | some sleep |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Reading more news until she feels better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights:t9:o3:1
# text = Reading more news until she feels better
1	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | gerund |  | more news |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Topic |
| 2 | **feel** | present | she |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Turning up the brightness of the screen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:adult-life:29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights:t9:o4:1
# text = Turning up the brightness of the screen
1	Turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn up** | gerund |  | the brightness of the screen |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brightness=Theme |

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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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