Test 5 · ★ · Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel

Your friend says: "That kid broke my pencil, so I'm gonna wreck his whole bag." What does the mark of Cain teach?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, kid · What happens: say, break, wreck, do, mark · To what, where: pencil, whole bag, mark, Cain teach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 2 «Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel» 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: Your friend says: "That kid broke my pencil, so I'm gonna wreck his whole bag."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 broke	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 broke	punct
6	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 kid	det
7	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	nsubj
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pencil	nmod:poss
10	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wreck	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 wreck	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 wreck	nsubj
14	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wreck	aux
15	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	16 wreck	dep
16	wreck	wreck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 bag	nmod:poss
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bag	amod
19	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wreck	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 wreck	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 wreck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	break in a quote	past	that kid	my pencil	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pencil=Patient
3	wreck in a quote	present	Your friend = friend	kid's whole bag	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient

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: What does the mark of Cain teach?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mark	det
4	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 teach	case
6	Cain	Cain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 teach	compound
7	teach	teach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mark	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the mark of Cain teach					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Eventuality
2	mark			Cain teach					nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The Bible says always pay back twice as much as was done to you, at least

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bible	det
2	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 pay	advmod
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 pay	advmod
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 much	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pay	obj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 done	mark
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux:pass
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 much	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 done	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 least	punct
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 least	case
17	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Bible					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pay back	infinitive		much		least	always property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Asset
3	do	past · passive			you			vn act-114-1 «NP V»

Option 2

Revenge is fair if you do it bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fair	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 do	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj
8	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 do	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Revenge					fair property	tree rules
2	do a condition, not said to happen	present	you	Revenge				big property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

You must never tell anyone about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 tell	advmod
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 tell	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	must	You		anyone			about it	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient about it=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Justice is not endless revenge; paying back bigger makes it worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 revenge	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 revenge	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 revenge	advmod
4	endless	endless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 revenge	amod
5	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 paying	punct
7	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 makes	csubj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 paying	advmod
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 paying	xcomp
10	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 revenge	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 makes	obj
12	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Justice	endless revenge		tree rules
2	pay back	gerund			big property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	present	paying	Justice	bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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