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title: Teacher: «Which is the healthiest way to play for an hour?» — Eyes, backs and thumbs · tree and pragmatics
description: Teacher: «Which is the healthiest way to play for an hour?» Test 10 of lesson 420 «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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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# Test 10 · Eyes, backs and thumbs

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Teacher: «Which is the healthiest way to play for an hour?»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Teacher · **What happens:** be, play · **To what, where:** healthiest way

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This is test 10 of lesson 420 «Eyes, backs and thumbs» 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/420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t10:1
# text = Teacher: «Which is the healthiest way to play for an hour?»
1	Teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	healthiest	healthy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Teacher | the healthiest way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | hour |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Hunched close to the screen, no break

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t10:o1:1
# text = Hunched close to the screen, no break
1	Hunched	hunch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunch** | participle |  |  | the screen and no break |  |  | close *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to screen=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Lying on the floor in the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t10:o2:1
# text = Lying on the floor in the dark
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the floor |  | in the dark | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |

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

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Sitting well, with water and a break

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t10:o3:1
# text = Sitting well, with water and a break
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with water and a break; well *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Standing on one leg the whole time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:420-eyes-backs-and-thumbs:t10:o4:1
# text = Standing on one leg the whole time
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | one leg | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |

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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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