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title: Why does holding a phone up at eye level help your neck? — Posture, screens and resting your eyes · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does holding a phone up at eye level help your neck? Test 8 · ★ 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 8 · ★ · Posture, screens and resting your eyes

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Why does holding a phone up at eye level help your neck?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** holding · **What happens:** hold up, help · **To what, where:** phone, eye level, neck

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t8:1
# text = Why does holding a phone up at eye level help your neck?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold up** | present · do-support |  | a phone |  | eye level |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot phone=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | present | holding | your neck |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Beneficiary |

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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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It makes the screen bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t8:o1:1
# text = It makes the screen bigger
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	bigger	big	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 | It | the screen |  |  |  | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material screen=Product |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Your head stays balanced over your neck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t8:o2:1
# text = Your head stays balanced over your neck
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	balanced	balance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **balance** | present · passive |  | Your head |  | your neck |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme over neck=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Your arms become stronger from holding it up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t8:o3:1
# text = Your arms become stronger from holding it up
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | Your arms |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **hold up** | gerund | Your arms *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The phone gets lighter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:8-posture-and-screens:t8:o4:1
# text = The phone gets lighter
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the phone |  |  |  |  | light *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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