Test 5 · ★ · Screens, sleep, fairness and differences

Why should you ask a person with a disability before helping them?

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

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 103 «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» 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	4 ask	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 disability	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 disability	det
9	disability	disability	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 helping	mark
11	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 ask	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 helping	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	should	you		a person			with a disability	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient
2	help	gerund	you not said here	them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

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

People with disabilities never need help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 need	nsubj
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 disabilities	case
3	disabilities	disability	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 People	nmod
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	People with disabilities	help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Option 2

Asking first makes them feel sorry for themselves and sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 makes	csubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Asking	advmod
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	obj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 sorry	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sad	cc
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sorry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			first property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Asking	them = they		tree rules
3	feel	infinitive	them = they not said here		sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

They want respect, and may not need or want help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 want	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 need	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 need	cc
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 need	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 need	advmod
8	need	need	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 want	parataxis
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 want	cc
10	want	want	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 need	conj
11	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	They	respect	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot respect=Theme
2	not need	may			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	want	infinitive		help	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Option 4

They are never allowed to be helped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 helped	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 helped	aux:pass
7	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 allowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		They					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	help not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	They not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»

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