Exam question 4 · Olympiad practice: the hardest cases

Ascertain which response to the question "Is honesty always the best policy?" would be most highly regarded by olympiad judges.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response, olympiad judges · What happens: ascertain, be, regard · To what, where: honesty, best policy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 100 «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 honesty	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 question	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 question	det
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 response	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 question	punct
8	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 honesty	cop
9	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	ccomp
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 policy	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 policy	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 policy	amod
13	policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 regarded	nsubj:pass
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 policy	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 policy	punct
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 regarded	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 regarded	aux:pass
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 highly	advmod
19	highly	highly	ADV	_	20 regarded	advmod
20	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 honesty	acl:relcl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 judges	case
22	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 judges	compound
23	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 regarded	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	which response to the question	honesty		tree rules
3	regard	would · passive	olympiad judges	the best policy	highly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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

One which affirms honesty without qualification or reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 affirms	nsubj
3	affirms	affirm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 One	acl:relcl
4	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 affirms	obj
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 qualification	case
6	qualification	qualification	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 affirms	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 reason	cc
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 qualification	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affirm	present		honesty				without qualification or reason	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honesty=Stimulus

Option 2

One which denies the value of honesty entirely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 denies	nsubj
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 denies	nsubj
3	denies	deny	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 value	det
5	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 denies	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 honesty	case
7	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 value	nmod
8	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	3 denies	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deny	present	One	the value of honesty				entirely property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent value=Eventuality
2	value			honesty					nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

One which declines to answer on the ground of difficulty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 declines	nsubj
3	declines	decline	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 One	acl:relcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 answer	mark
5	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 declines	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answer	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 difficulty	case
10	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ground	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decline	present							vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not answer speech: assert	to-infinitive				the ground of difficulty			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

One which affirms honesty as the rule, examines the rare grave exceptions, and weighs both sides with reasons

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 affirms	nsubj
3	affirms	affirm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 One	acl:relcl
4	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 affirms	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 rule	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rule	det
7	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 honesty	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 examines	punct
9	examines	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 affirms	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 exceptions	det
11	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 exceptions	amod
12	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 exceptions	amod
13	exceptions	exception	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 examines	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weighs	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 weighs	cc
16	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 affirms	conj
17	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	18 sides	det
18	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 weighs	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 reasons	case
20	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 weighs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	affirm	present	honesty	as the rule	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honesty=Stimulus
2	examine	present	the rare grave exceptions		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exception=Theme
3	weigh	present	both sides	with reasons	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme side=Value

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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