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title: What would happen if a child sat in front of screens all day and nev… — Exercise and posture · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a child sat in front of screens all day and never moved? Test 5 of lesson 34 «Exercise and posture» of the medicine 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 5 · Exercise and posture

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What would happen if a child sat in front of screens all day and never moved?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** child · **What happens:** happen, sit, not move · **To what, where:** front

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This is test 5 of lesson 34 «Exercise and posture» of the medicine 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/medicine/34-exercise-and-posture/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t5:1
# text = What would happen if a child sat in front of screens all day and never moved?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	screens	screen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a child |  |  | front of screens | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
| 3 | **not** **move** | participle | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Heart, bones and mood would likely suffer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t5:o1:1
# text = Heart, bones and mood would likely suffer
1	Heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | would | Heart and bones and mood |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, the body doesn't need movement to stay healthy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t5:o2:1
# text = Nothing, the body doesn't need movement to stay healthy
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | Nothing | movement |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | movement *not said here* |  |  |  |  | healthy *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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They'd sleep better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t5:o3:1
# text = They'd sleep better
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | would | They |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Their bones would grow stronger from the rest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:34-exercise-and-posture:t5:o4:1
# text = Their bones would grow stronger from the rest
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | Their bones |  |  |  |  | from the rest; strong *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from rest=Patient |

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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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