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title: can't sleep, gonna scroll on my phone till i'm tired — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: can't sleep, gonna scroll on my phone till i'm tired Test 15 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 15 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes

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can't sleep, gonna scroll on my phone till i'm tired

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** i · **What happens:** not sleep, scroll, be · **To what, where:** phone

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This is test 15 · ★ 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/#t15).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t15:1
# text = can't sleep, gonna scroll on my phone till i'm tired
1	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	_
6	scroll	scroll	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sleep** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scroll** | infinitive |  |  |  | my phone |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | i |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, scrolling makes you sleepy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t15:o1:1
# text = Yes, scrolling makes you sleepy
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	scrolling	scroll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scroll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | you |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if the sound is off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t15:o2:1
# text = Yes, if the sound is off
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	off	off	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, turn the screen brighter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t15:o3:1
# text = Yes, turn the screen brighter
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | the screen |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent screen=Theme |

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

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Put the phone away, its light keeps you awake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t15:o4:1
# text = Put the phone away, its light keeps you awake
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put away** | imperative | you *not said here* | the phone |  |  |  | away *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Goal |
| 2 | **keep** | present | phone's light | you |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **light** |  | phone |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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