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title: my mate says a boy played games "for 3 days straight without sleepin… — Being kind to yourself, money, screens… · tree and pragmatics
description: my mate says a boy played games "for 3 days straight without sleeping". what's prob exaggerated Test 18 · ★ of lesson 293 «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 18 · ★ · Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play

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my mate says a boy played games "for 3 days straight without sleeping". what's prob exaggerated

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, boy · **What happens:** say, play, sleep, be, exaggerate · **To what, where:** games, prob · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 293 «Being kind to yourself, money, screens and fair play» 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/293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play/#t18).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t18:1
# text = my mate says a boy played games "for 3 days straight without sleeping". what's prob exaggerated
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	prob	prob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
20	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **play** | past | a boy | games |  |  | day |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** *in a quote* | gerund | a boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | prob |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **exaggerate** | participle |  | prob *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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That screens affect sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t18:o1:1
# text = That screens affect sleep
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	affect	affect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | present | that screens | sleep |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sleep=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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That games can be fun for hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t18:o2:1
# text = That games can be fun for hours
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | that games |  |  |  | hour | fun *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The 3 days; but too much screen time does hurt sleep and mood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t18:o3:1
# text = The 3 days; but too much screen time does hurt sleep and mood
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present · passive · do-support |  | much screen time |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That boys play games

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:293-being-kind-to-yourself-money-screens-and-fair-play:t18:o4:1
# text = That boys play games
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | that boys | games |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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