Exam question 4 · Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★

Which response to the question "Is fair always equal?" would olympiad judges regard most highly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: response, olympiad judges · What happens: be, regard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 103 «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 response	det
2	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fair	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 question	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 question	det
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 response	nmod
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 question	punct
7	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fair	cop
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 equal	advmod
10	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fair	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 fair	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fair	punct
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 regard	aux
14	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 judges	compound
15	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 regard	nsubj
16	regard	regard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fair	parataxis
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 highly	advmod
18	highly	highly	ADV	_	16 regard	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	which response to the question	fair property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		which response to the question not said here	always property	tree rules
3	regard	would	olympiad judges	highly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

One which answers no without reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 answers	nsubj
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 answers	nsubj
3	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 answers	obj
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 reason	case
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answers	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	One	no				without reason	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent no=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One which distinguishes equality from need and effort, with examples, and weighs which fits the case

The tree, 16 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 distinguishes	nsubj
3	distinguishes	distinguish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 One	acl:relcl
4	equality	equality	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 distinguishes	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 need	case
6	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 distinguishes	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 effort	cc
8	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 examples	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 examples	case
11	examples	example	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 weighs	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 weighs	cc
14	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 distinguishes	conj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 fits	nsubj
16	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 weighs	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 case	det
18	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	distinguish	present	equality	from need and effort and examples	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent equality=Theme from need=Co-Theme
2	weigh	present			tree rules
3	fit	present	the case		vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent case=Patient

Option 3

One which declines to answer

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

#	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							vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

One which answers yes without reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 answers	nsubj
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 answers	nsubj
3	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 answers	discourse
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 reason	case
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answers	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	One					without reason	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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