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title: Why might a child who cannot see the board start doing worse at scho… — Growing, seeing and hearing · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a child who cannot see the board start doing worse at school? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» of the everyday 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 6 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

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Why might a child who cannot see the board start doing worse at school?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** child, board start · **What happens:** not see, do · **To what, where:** board start, school

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t6:1
# text = Why might a child who cannot see the board start doing worse at school?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | a child | the board start |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer start=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | the board start *not said here* |  |  | school |  | bad *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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Seeing badly is always their fault

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t6:o1:1
# text = Seeing badly is always their fault
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Seeing | their fault |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |

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

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They miss what is written, so an eye test can really help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t6:o2:1
# text = They miss what is written, so an eye test can really help
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	miss	miss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	really	really	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **write** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | can | a eye test |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Eye tests make reading harder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t6:o3:1
# text = Eye tests make reading harder
1	Eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Eye tests | reading |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reading=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Blurry boards make you less clever over time, so marks drop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t6:o4:1
# text = Blurry boards make you less clever over time, so marks drop
1	Blurry	blurry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Blurry boards | you |  |  |  | clever *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
| 2 | **drop** | present | marks |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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