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title: Which is true about children and phones? — Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about children and phones? Test 3 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness

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Which is true about children and phones?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 216 «Privacy, screens, sleep and fairness» 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/216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness:t3:1
# text = Which is true about children and phones?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about children and phones; true *property* | tree rules |

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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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A child without a phone always falls behind at school

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness:t3:o1:1
# text = A child without a phone always falls behind at school
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall behind** | present | a child without a phone |  |  | school |  | always, behind *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at school=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Every 9-year-old has a phone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness:t3:o2:1
# text = Every 9-year-old has a phone
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
2	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | every year old | a phone |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Each family chooses the right time for its children

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness:t3:o3:1
# text = Each family chooses the right time for its children
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chooses	choose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | present | each family |  |  |  | time | for family's children | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for child=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Phones are needed to make friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:216-privacy-screens-sleep-and-fairness:t3:o4:1
# text = Phones are needed to make friends
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present · passive |  | Phones |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | friends |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product |

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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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