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title: Identify the effect of the use of screens in bed upon children. — Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the effect of the use of screens in bed upon children. Exam question 1 of lesson 216 «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» 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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# Exam question 1 · Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness

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Identify the effect of the use of screens in bed upon children.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, effect, use · **To what, where:** effect, use, screens

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 216 «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness:e1:1
# text = Identify the effect of the use of screens in bed upon children.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the effect of the use of screens in bed upon children |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent effect=Theme |
| 2 | **effect** |  |  | the use of screens in bed upon children |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **use** |  |  | screens in bed upon children |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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Children remain awake later and learning and mood suffer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness:e1:o1:1
# text = Children remain awake later and learning and mood suffer
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | awake, late *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | gerund | Children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **suffer** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Screens in bed have no effect on sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness:e1:o2:1
# text = Screens in bed have no effect on sleep
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Screens in bed | no effect |  | sleep |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Children fall asleep sooner and more deeply

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness:e1:o3:1
# text = Children fall asleep sooner and more deeply
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
7	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | Children |  |  |  |  | asleep, deeply, soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Screens in bed improve the memory

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness:e1:o4:1
# text = Screens in bed improve the memory
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	improve	improve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **improve** | present | Screens in bed | the memory |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent memory=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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