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title: Which is a good reason to keep your phone away during a film? — Age ratings, scary films and choosing… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is a good reason to keep your phone away during a film? Test 8 of lesson 26 «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts 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 8 · Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch

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Which is a good reason to keep your phone away during a film?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, keep away · **To what, where:** good reason, phone

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This is test 8 of lesson 26 «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» of the arts 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/arts/26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:t8:1
# text = Which is a good reason to keep your phone away during a film?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a good reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep away** | to-infinitive |  | your phone |  |  | during a film | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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You will catch the clues

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:t8:o1:1
# text = You will catch the clues
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	clues	clue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | future | You | the clues |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clue=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Cinemas confiscate phones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:t8:o2:1
# text = Cinemas confiscate phones
1	Cinemas	cinema	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	confiscate	confiscate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confiscate** | present | Cinemas | phones |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Phones make films play faster, so you miss the end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:t8:o3:1
# text = Phones make films play faster, so you miss the end
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	miss	miss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Phones | films |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | infinitive | films *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **miss** | present | you | the end |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The film stops playing if anyone's phone is switched on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:26-age-ratings-scary-films-and-choosing-what-to-watch:t8:o4:1
# text = The film stops playing if anyone's phone is switched on
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	switched	switch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | the film |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | the film *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **switch on** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | anyone's phone |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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