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title: neck hurts from my phone lol — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: neck hurts from my phone lol Test 13 · ★ of lesson 8 «Posture, screens and resting your eyes» 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 13 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes

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neck hurts from my phone lol

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** neck · **What happens:** hurt

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 8 «Posture, screens and resting your eyes» 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/8-posture-and-screens/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t13:1
# text = neck hurts from my phone lol
1	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present | neck |  |  |  |  | from my phone | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Patient from phone=Stimulus |

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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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Hold it in your lap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t13:o1:1
# text = Hold it in your lap
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | your lap |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in lap=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Hold it higher; don't bend your head right down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t13:o2:1
# text = Hold it higher; don't bend your head right down
1	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	bend	bend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	right	right	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | high *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **bend** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | your head |  |  |  | down *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Use it lying on your tummy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t13:o3:1
# text = Use it lying on your tummy
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | your tummy |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tummy=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bend lower to see better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t13:o4:1
# text = Bend lower to see better
1	Bend	bend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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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