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title: Ascertain the minimum daily duration of physical activity recommende… — Eyes, ears and moving your body · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the minimum daily duration of physical activity recommended for children. Exam question 2 of lesson 87 «Eyes, ears and moving your body» 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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# Exam question 2 · Eyes, ears and moving your body

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Ascertain the minimum daily duration of physical activity recommended for children.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, recommend · **To what, where:** minimum daily duration, physical activity

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 87 «Eyes, ears and moving your body» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/87-eyes-ears-and-moving/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:87-eyes-ears-and-moving:e2:1
# text = Ascertain the minimum daily duration of physical activity recommended for children.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	minimum	minimum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the minimum daily duration of physical activity |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic |
| 2 | **recommend** | participle |  | physical activity *not said here* |  |  |  | for children | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for child=Attribute |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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At least one hour per day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:87-eyes-ears-and-moving:e2:o1:1
# text = At least one hour per day
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nmod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	per	per	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
At least five hours per day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:87-eyes-ears-and-moving:e2:o2:1
# text = At least five hours per day
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nmod	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	per	per	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No activity is recommended at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:87-eyes-ears-and-moving:e2:o3:1
# text = No activity is recommended at all
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recommend** | present · passive |  | no activity |  | all |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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At least ten minutes per week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:87-eyes-ears-and-moving:e2:o4:1
# text = At least ten minutes per week
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nmod	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	per	per	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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