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title: In a movie, a kid who reads by torchlight under the covers goes blin… — Screens, eyes and sleep · tree and pragmatics
description: In a movie, a kid who reads by torchlight under the covers goes blind. Real life? Test 10 · ★★ 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 each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Screens, eyes and sleep

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In a movie, a kid who reads by torchlight under the covers goes blind. Real life?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kid · **What happens:** read, go · **To what, where:** covers, movie

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Screens, eyes and sleep» 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/35-screens-eyes-and-sleep/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a movie, a kid who reads by torchlight under the covers goes blind.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:t10:1
# text = In a movie, a kid who reads by torchlight under the covers goes blind.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	movie	movie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	torchlight	torchlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	covers	cover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | a kid |  |  | the covers |  | by torchlight | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | present | a kid |  |  | a movie |  | blind *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in movie=Location |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Real life?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:t10:2
# text = Real life?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Dim light may tire eyes but doesn't ruin them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:t10:o1:1
# text = Dim light may tire eyes but doesn't ruin them
1	Dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	tire	tire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tire** | may | Dim light | eyes |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **ruin** | present · do-support | Dim light *not said here* | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Torches are banned in bedrooms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:t10:o2:1
# text = Torches are banned in bedrooms
1	Torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	bedrooms	bedroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | present · passive |  | Torches |  | bedrooms |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It's good for eyes, it trains them in the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:t10:o3:1
# text = It's good for eyes, it trains them in the dark
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	trains	train	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | for eyes; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **train** | present | it | eyes *= eye* |  | the dark |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It does cause blindness after a while

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:t10:o4:1
# text = It does cause blindness after a while
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	blindness	blindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | It |  |  |  | while | cause blindness | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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