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title: Teacher to Mum: «She fell asleep in class again». The girl reads wit… — Staying up, screens and coming home late · tree and pragmatics
description: Teacher to Mum: «She fell asleep in class again». The girl reads with a torch till late. What's the fix? Test 7 of lesson 348 «Staying up, screens and coming home late» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 7 · Staying up, screens and coming home late

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Teacher to Mum: «She fell asleep in class again». The girl reads with a torch till late. What's the fix?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Teacher, girl, fix · **What happens:** fall, read, be · **To what, where:** class

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This is test 7 of lesson 348 «Staying up, screens and coming home late» 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/348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Teacher to Mum: «She fell asleep in class again».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t7:1
# text = Teacher to Mum: «She fell asleep in class again».
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | Teacher to Mum |  |  | class | again | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* The girl reads with a torch till late.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t7:2
# text = The girl reads with a torch till late.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | the girl |  |  |  |  | with a torch | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What's the fix?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t7:3
# text = What's the fix?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fix	fix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the fix |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Use a brighter torch so Mum doesn't see the glow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t7:o1:1
# text = Use a brighter torch so Mum doesn't see the glow
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | a brighter torch |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **see** | present · do-support | Mum | the glow |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glow=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sleep in class every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t7:o2:1
# text = Sleep in class every day
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Read faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t7:o3:1
# text = Read faster
1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Keep to bedtime and read the ending at the weekend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:348-staying-up-screens-and-coming-home-late:t7:o4:1
# text = Keep to bedtime and read the ending at the weekend
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	bedtime	bedtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	weekend	weekend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to bedtime | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **read** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the ending |  |  | weekend |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ending=Topic |

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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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