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Test 5 · ★★★ · Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★

"Zacchaeus paying back four times is bare extra, once is fair, innit," says Kofi. Best-reasoned reply?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zacchaeus, paying, Kofi · What happens: pay back, be, say, reason · To what, where: reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 103 «Olympiad: fair or unfair, chains of reasons and dilemmas ★★★» 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: "Zacchaeus paying back four times is bare extra, once is fair, innit," says Kofi.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 paying	punct
2	Zacchaeus	Zacchaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 paying	nsubj
3	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 extra	csubj
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 paying	advmod
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 paying	obl:unmarked
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 extra	cop
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 extra	amod
9	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fair	punct
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 fair	advmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fair	cop
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 extra	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fair	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Kofi	Kofi	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 says	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay back in a quote	gerund	Zacchaeus				time		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	paying					extra property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	paying not said here					fair, once property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	Kofi						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

Sentence 2: Best-reasoned reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 reasoned	advmod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Best	punct
3	reasoned	reason	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reasoned	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reasoned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reason	participle		reply					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme

The options

Option 1

Four times is still the law for everyone in Britain today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 law	nmod:unmarked
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 law	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 law	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 law	det
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 law	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Britain	case
10	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 everyone	nmod
11	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 law	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the law			still; time; today	for everyone	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Zacchaeus never paid anything back to anybody, he ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zacchaeus	Zacchaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 paid	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 paid	advmod
3	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 paid	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 paid	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 anybody	case
7	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 paid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ran	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ran	nsubj
10	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pay back	past	Zacchaeus	anything				to anybody	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Asset
2	run off	past	Zacchaeus						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Once is the least; four times shows real sorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 shows	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Once	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 least	det
4	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Once	obl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shows	nsubj
8	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sorrow	amod
10	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						the least obl; once property	tree rules
2	show	present	four times	real sorrow					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorrow=Recipient

Option 4

He's right, paying back more than you took is always silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 paying	punct
5	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 silly	csubj
6	back	back	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 paying	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 took	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 more	advcl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 silly	cop
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 silly	advmod
13	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	pay back	gerund		more					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Asset
3	take	past	you						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	paying					always, silly property	tree rules

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