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title: Your eyes sting after 2 hours on a tablet. Quick fix? — Screens, eyes and sleep · tree and pragmatics
description: Your eyes sting after 2 hours on a tablet. Quick fix? Test 6 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Screens, eyes and sleep

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Your eyes sting after 2 hours on a tablet. Quick fix?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** sting · **To what, where:** tablet

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your eyes sting after 2 hours on a tablet.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:t6:1
# text = Your eyes sting after 2 hours on a tablet.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sting	sting	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | present | Your eyes |  |  | a tablet | hour |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:* Quick fix?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:t6:2
# text = Quick fix?
1	Quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fix	fix	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Look far away and blink for a bit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:t6:o1:1
# text = Look far away and blink for a bit
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	blink	blink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **blink** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a bit | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Turn the brightness up to full

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:t6:o2:1
# text = Turn the brightness up to full
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn up** | imperative | you *not said here* | the brightness |  |  |  | to full | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brightness=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Get closer to the screen so they focus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:t6:o3:1
# text = Get closer to the screen so they focus
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	focus	focus	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **focus** | present | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Rub them hard with your knuckles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:35-screens-eyes-and-sleep:t6:o4:1
# text = Rub them hard with your knuckles
1	Rub	rub	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | with your knuckles; hard *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with knuckle=Theme |

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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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