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title: State the quantity of sleep recommended nightly for children aged si… — Sleep, exercise and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: State the quantity of sleep recommended nightly for children aged six to twelve years. Exam question 2 of lesson 38 «Sleep, exercise and growing up» of the world 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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# Exam question 2 · Sleep, exercise and growing up

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State the quantity of sleep recommended nightly 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:** state, recommend, age · **To what, where:** quantity, children

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 38 «Sleep, exercise and growing up» of the world 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/world/38-sleep-exercise-growing/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:e2:1
# text = State the quantity of sleep recommended nightly for children aged six to twelve years.
1	State	state	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	_	5	case	_	_
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	nightly	nightly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	aged	age	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
11	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the quantity of sleep |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent quantity=Topic |
| 2 | **recommend** | participle |  | the quantity of sleep *not said here* |  |  |  | for children; nightly *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 five to six hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:e2:o1:1
# 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	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Approximately fifteen to eighteen hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:e2:o2:1
# text = Approximately fifteen to eighteen hours
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fifteen	fifteen	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 3 {#o3}

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Approximately three to four hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing:e2:o3:1
# text = Approximately three to four hours
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	four	four	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:world:38-sleep-exercise-growing: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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