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title: Ella in Denver gets cross and tired every evening after hours on her… — Screens, sleep, fairness and differences · tree and pragmatics
description: Ella in Denver gets cross and tired every evening after hours on her tablet. What change would help most? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 103 «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 1 · ★ · Screens, sleep, fairness and differences

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Ella in Denver gets cross and tired every evening after hours on her tablet. What change would help most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ella, change · **What happens:** get, help · **To what, where:** cross

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 103 «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» of the everyday 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/everyday/103-screens-fairness-and-differences/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ella in Denver gets cross and tired every evening after hours on her tablet.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences:t1:1
# text = Ella in Denver gets cross and tired every evening after hours on her tablet.
1	Ella	Ella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Denver	Denver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Ella in Denver | cross |  |  | evening; hour |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cross=Stimulus |

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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 change would help most?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences:t1:2
# text = What change would help most?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	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 | what change |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A bigger tablet with a brighter screen so it is easier on her eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences:t1:o1:1
# text = A bigger tablet with a brighter screen so it is easier on her eyes
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	expl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a bigger tablet with a brighter screen |  |  | her eyes |  | easy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Playing on her tablet in bed instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences:t1:o2:1
# text = Playing on her tablet in bed instead
1	Playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund |  |  |  | her tablet |  | in bed; instead *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Skipping dinner to finish her games

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences:t1:o3:1
# text = Skipping dinner to finish her games
1	Skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | gerund |  | dinner |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Agent |
| 2 | **finish** | to-infinitive |  | her games |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality game=Eventuality |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Shorter screen time and more time outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:103-screens-fairness-and-differences:t1:o4:1
# text = Shorter screen time and more time outside
1	Shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
2	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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