--- title: Pursuant to current recommendations, determine the nightly duration… — Screens, eyes and sleep · tree and pragmatics description: Pursuant to current recommendations, determine the nightly duration of sleep required by children aged between six and twelve years. Exam question 1 of lesson 35 «Screens, eyes and sleep» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/e1/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/) / [Screens, eyes and sleep](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Screens, eyes and sleep Pursuant to current recommendations, determine the nightly duration of sleep required by children aged between six and twelve years. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** determine, require, age · **To what, where:** nightly duration, children This is exam question 1 of lesson 35 «Screens, eyes and sleep» of the medicine 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/medicine/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:e1:1 # text = Pursuant to current recommendations, determine the nightly duration of sleep required by children aged between six and twelve years. 1 Pursuant pursuant ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 current current ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 recommendations recommendation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 determine determine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 nightly nightly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 duration duration NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 required require VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:agent _ _ 15 aged age VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 acl _ _ 16 between between ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 conj _ _ 20 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the nightly duration of sleep | | | | pursuant *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic | | 2 | **require** | participle | | the nightly duration of sleep *not said here* | | | | | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **age** | participle | | children *not said here* | | | year | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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} Approximately fourteen to sixteen hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:e1:o1:1 # text = Approximately fourteen to sixteen hours 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 fourteen fourteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Approximately five to six hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:e1:o2:1 # text = Approximately five to six hours 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 5 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Approximately three hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:e1:o3:1 # text = Approximately three hours 1 Approximately approximately ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Approximately nine to twelve hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:e1: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 _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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