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title: Why does the 20-20-20 rule ask you to look far away and not at anoth… — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does the 20-20-20 rule ask you to look far away and not at another close thing? Test 2 · ★ 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 2 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes

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Why does the 20-20-20 rule ask you to look far away and not at another close thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, ask, look · **To what, where:** 20-20-20 rule, you

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t2:1
# text = Why does the 20-20-20 rule ask you to look far away and not at another close thing?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	20-20-20	20-20-20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | the 20-20-20 rule |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Eventuality |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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Far things are brighter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t2:o1:1
# text = Far things are brighter
1	Far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Far things |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Close things are bad for your eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t2:o2:1
# text = Close things are bad for your eyes
1	Close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Close things |  |  |  |  | for your eyes; bad *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Far looking lets the focusing muscles relax

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t2:o3:1
# text = Far looking lets the focusing muscles relax
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
3	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	focusing	focus	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	relax	relax	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **let** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **focus** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **relax** | infinitive | the focusing muscles |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is a rule with no reason, made up by somebody long ago

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t2:o4:1
# text = It is a rule with no reason, made up by somebody long ago
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a rule |  |  |  | with no reason | tree rules |
| 2 | **make up** | participle |  | a rule *not said here* |  |  |  | by somebody; ago *property* | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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