Test 5 · ★ · Responsibility, independence and curiosity

Why ask a question about someone's disability in private, or to a parent later?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ask · To what, where: question, private

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 101 «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» of the everyday 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 ask	advmod
2	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 question	det
4	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 disability	case
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 disability	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 someone	case
8	disability	disability	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ask	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 private	case
10	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ask	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 parent	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 parent	cc
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 parent	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 parent	det
15	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 later	obl:unmarked
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 ask	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	a question		private		about someone's disability; late property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent question=Recipient about disability=Topic

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

Option 1

It is against the law to ask

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 law	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 law	cop
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 law	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 ask	mark
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 law	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					against the law	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Disabilities are a secret that nobody else is ever allowed to know

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Disabilities	disability	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 secret	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 secret	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 secret	det
4	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 allowed	obj
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 allowed	nsubj:pass
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 nobody	advmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 allowed	aux:pass
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 allowed	advmod
10	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 secret	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 know	mark
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	Disabilities	a secret		tree rules
2	allow	present · passive		nobody	ever	tree rules
3	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Being curious is fine, but people deserve respect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 curious	cop
2	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fine	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deserve	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 deserve	cc
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 deserve	nsubj
8	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	conj
9	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deserve	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	gerund			curious property	tree rules
2	is	present			fine property	tree rules
3	deserve	present	people	respect		tree rules

Option 4

The person might be angry at the parent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 angry	cop
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 parent	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parent	det
8	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	the person					at the parent; angry property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/101-responsibility-independence-curiosity/t5/