--- title: Which is true? — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics description: Which is true? Test 6 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Posture, screens and resting your eyes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/8-posture-and-screens/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes Which is true? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t6:1 # text = Which is true? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | 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} Screens make you blink every second ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t6:o1:1 # text = Screens make you blink every second 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 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 blink blink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Screens | you | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **blink** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | second | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} You blink more while staring at a screen ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t6:o2:1 # text = You blink more while staring at a screen 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 blink blink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 4 while while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blink** | present | You | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stare** | gerund | You *not said here* | | | | | at a screen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Blinking makes your eyes drier ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t6:o3:1 # text = Blinking makes your eyes drier 1 Blinking blink VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 nsubj _ _ 2 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 drier dry ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blink** | gerund | | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | present | | your eyes | | | | dry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eye=Product | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} You blink less while staring at a screen ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t6:o4:1 # text = You blink less while staring at a screen 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 blink blink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 4 while while SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 5 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **blink** | present | You | | | | | less *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stare** | gerund | You *not said here* | | | | | at a screen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at screen=Theme | **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. 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