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title: neck hurts from looking down at my phone, why? — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: neck hurts from looking down at my phone, why? Test 16 · ★ 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 16 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes

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neck hurts from looking down at my phone, why?

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

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This is test 16 · ★ 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/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t16:1
# text = neck hurts from looking down at my phone, why?
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	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | present | neck |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **look down** | gerund | neck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at my phone; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme |

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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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Phones send out heat that hurts your neck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t16:o1:1
# text = Phones send out heat that hurts your neck
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send out** | present | Phones | heat |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 2 | **hurt** | present | heat | your neck |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient |

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

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Bending your head down strains your neck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t16:o2:1
# text = Bending your head down strains your neck
1	Bending	bend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	strains	strain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend down** | gerund |  | your head |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material |
| 2 | **strain** | present | Bending | your neck |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent neck=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Screens make muscles weaker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t16:o3:1
# text = Screens make muscles weaker
1	Screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Screens | muscles |  |  |  | weak *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset muscle=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Your neck is too short for phones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t16:o4:1
# text = Your neck is too short for phones
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	phones	phone	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** | present | Your neck |  |  |  |  | for phones; short *property* | tree rules |

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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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