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Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad practice: the hardest cases

A judge asks, "Is honesty ALWAYS the best policy?" A team answers, "Yes, full stop." What would make it stronger?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judge, honesty, team · What happens: ask, be, answer, make · To what, where: best policy, stop · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics 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 judge asks, "Is honesty ALWAYS the best policy?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 policy	punct
6	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 policy	cop
7	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 policy	nsubj
8	ALWAYS	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 policy	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 policy	det
10	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 policy	amod
11	policy	policy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 policy	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 policy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a judge						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	honesty	the best policy				always property	tree rules

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: A team answers, "Yes, full stop."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 team	det
2	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answers	nsubj
3	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 answers	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 stop	punct
6	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 stop	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Yes	punct
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stop	amod
9	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answers	ccomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stop	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	a team						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What would make it stronger?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 make	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	obj
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would		stop				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary it=Product

The options

Option 1

Saying the other team is wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wrong	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 team	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 team	amod
4	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		the other team					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent team=Topic
2	is	present	Saying					wrong property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Repeating the question back to the judge, slowly and very clearly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Repeating	repeat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 question	det
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Repeating	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 Repeating	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 judge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 judge	det
7	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 back	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slowly	punct
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Repeating	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 clearly	cc
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 clearly	advmod
12	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	9 slowly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	gerund		the question				slowly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality

Option 3

Saying "full stop" louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stop	amod
4	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct
6	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Saying	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		full stop					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stop=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Giving reasons and facing the hard cases, like saving a life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Giving	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 facing	cc
4	facing	face	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Giving	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cases	det
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cases	amod
7	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 facing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saving	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 saving	mark
10	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Giving	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 life	det
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		reasons					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	face	gerund		the hard cases					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme case=Destination
3	save	gerund		a life					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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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