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title: Ascertain the effect of screens late at night upon children. — Routines, screen time and earning money · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the effect of screens late at night upon children. Exam question 4 of lesson 264 «Routines, screen time and earning money» 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 4 · Routines, screen time and earning money

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Ascertain the effect of screens late at night upon children.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, effect · **To what, where:** effect, screens

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 264 «Routines, screen time and earning money» 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/264-routines-screens-and-earning/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:264-routines-screens-and-earning:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the effect of screens late at night upon children.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	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	_	5	case	_	_
5	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the effect of screens |  |  | night | upon children; late *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Topic |
| 2 | **effect** |  |  | screens |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They improve learning and concentration the next day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:264-routines-screens-and-earning:e4:o1:1
# text = They improve learning and concentration the next day
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	improve	improve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	concentration	concentration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **improve** | present | They | learning and concentration |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent learning=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They have no effect on sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:264-routines-screens-and-earning:e4:o2:1
# text = They have no effect on sleep
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sleep is deeper and longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:264-routines-screens-and-earning:e4:o3:1
# text = Sleep is deeper and longer
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sleep |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |

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

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Sleep is more difficult, and learning and mood suffer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:264-routines-screens-and-earning:e4:o4:1
# text = Sleep is more difficult, and learning and mood suffer
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	suffer	suffer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sleep |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **suffer** | present | learning and mood |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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