Test 9 · ★ · Being trusted and what to do with things you find

A boy finds a test answer sheet and says «It's not cheating if I just found it». What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, sheet · What happens: find, say, not cheat, be · To what, where: answer sheet, sheet · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 286 «Being trusted and what to do with things you find» 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

Sentence 1: A boy finds a test answer sheet and says «It's not cheating if I just found it».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sheet	det
5	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answer	compound
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sheet	compound
7	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 says	cc
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 finds	conj
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 cheating	punct
11	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cheating	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cheating	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 cheating	advmod
14	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 says	ccomp
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 found	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 found	advmod
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cheating	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	obj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find	present	a boy	a answer sheet	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	a boy not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not cheat in a quote	present · progressive	sheet		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	a boy = boy	sheet	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is fine because he did not steal it, he only found it lying there

The tree, 15 words

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	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 steal	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 steal	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 steal	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 steal	advmod
8	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fine	csubj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 steal	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 found	advmod
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	obj
15	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 found	xcomp
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 lying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				fine property	tree rules
2	not steal	past · do-support	he	it			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	find	past	he	it			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
4	lie	gerund			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is only cheating if he shares it

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	4 cheating	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cheating	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 cheating	advmod
4	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 shares	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shares	nsubj
7	shares	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cheating	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shares	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	present · progressive	It						vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	share a condition, not said to happen	present	he	it					tree rules

Option 3

It is fine if he only looks once

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	3 fine	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 looks	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 looks	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 looks	advmod
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	advcl
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 looks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	look a condition, not said to happen	present	he					once property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Using it would still be cheating and unfair to the class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 cheating	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Using	obj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cheating	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 cheating	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cheating	aux
6	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 unfair	cc
8	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cheating	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 class	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 class	det
11	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 unfair	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		it					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	cheat	would · progressive	Using				still		vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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