Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad practice: the hardest cases

What would happen if everyone thought any lie was fine whenever it helped them?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, lie · What happens: happen, think, be, help · To what, where: them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 thought	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 lie	det
8	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thought	ccomp
11	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 helped	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 helped	nsubj
13	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 helped	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	any lie		fine property	tree rules
4	help	past	lie	them = they	whenever property	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

Life would be easier and safer for everybody

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 easier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 easier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 easier	cop
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 safer	cc
6	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 easier	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 everybody	case
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 easier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Life					for everybody; easy property	tree rules
2	be		Life not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone would be happier and kinder to each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 happier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happier	cop
4	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kinder	cc
6	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 happier	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 happier	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Everyone					to each; happy property	tree rules
2	be		Everyone not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Only olympiads would be affected, nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 olympiads	advmod
2	olympiads	olympiad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 affected	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 affected	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 affected	aux:pass
5	affected	affect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nothing	punct
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 affected	obj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	affect	would · passive		olympiads					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer nothing=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody could trust anyone's words any more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 trust	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trust	aux
3	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 words	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 anyone	case
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trust	obj
7	any	any	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 trust	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	could	Nobody	anyone's words					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	word		anyone						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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