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title: Identify the quantity of nightly sleep generally recommended for chi… — Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the quantity of nightly sleep generally recommended for children aged six to twelve years. Exam question 2 of lesson 9 «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Exam question 2 · Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals

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Identify the quantity of nightly sleep generally recommended for children aged six to twelve years.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, recommend, age · **To what, where:** quantity, nightly sleep, children

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 9 «Tiredness, hunger and thirst: the body's signals» 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/9-body-signals/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:9-body-signals:e2:1
# text = Identify the quantity of nightly sleep generally recommended for children aged six to twelve years.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	nightly	nightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	aged	age	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
12	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nmod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the quantity of nightly sleep |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme |
| 2 | **recommend** | participle |  | nightly sleep *not said here* |  |  |  | for children; generally *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for child=Attribute |
| 3 | **age** | participle |  | children *not said here* |  |  | year |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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Approximately sixteen to eighteen hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:9-body-signals:e2:o1:1
# text = Approximately sixteen to eighteen hours
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Approximately six hours at most

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:9-body-signals:e2:o2:1
# text = Approximately six hours at most
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Approximately four to five hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:9-body-signals:e2:o3:1
# text = Approximately four to five hours
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Approximately nine to twelve hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:9-body-signals:e2:o4:1
# text = Approximately nine to twelve hours
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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