--- title: Count them: two friends stare at screens for one minute and blink 5… — Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: two friends stare at screens for one minute and blink 5 times each instead of about 15. How many blinks did they miss together? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 362 «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★★ · Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, ea… Count them: two friends stare at screens for one minute and blink 5 times each instead of about 15. How many blinks did they miss together? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, two friends, many blinks · **What happens:** count, stare, blink, miss · **To what, where:** them This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 362 «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» of the biology 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/biology/362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: two friends stare at screens for one minute and blink 5 times each instead of about 15. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness:t12:1 # text = Count them: two friends stare at screens for one minute and blink 5 times each instead of about 15. 1 Count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 stare stare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 screens screen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 blink blink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 15 nmod:unmarked _ _ 17 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 20 case _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **stare** | present | two friends | | | | minute | at screens | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | | 3 | **blink** | present | two friends *not said here* | | | | time | instead 15 | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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. *Sentence 2:* How many blinks did they miss together? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness:t12:2 # text = How many blinks did they miss together? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 blinks blink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 miss miss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 together together ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **miss** | past · do-support | many blinks | | | | | together *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness:t12:o1:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 20 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness:t12:o2:1 # text = 20 1 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 30 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness:t12:o3:1 # text = 30 1 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 10 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:362-eyes-and-ears-deeper-glasses-colour-blindness-tears-earwax-and-dizziness:t12:o4:1 # text = 10 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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