Test 4 · ★ · Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief
someone at school calls a classmate's faith "stupid nonsense." What is the best response?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: someone, faith, best response · What happens: call, nonsense, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 33 «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief» 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: someone at school calls a classmate's faith "stupid nonsense."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 calls | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 school | case |
| 3 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 someone | nmod |
| 4 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 classmate | det |
| 6 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 faith | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 classmate | case |
| 8 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nonsense | nsubj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 faith | punct |
| 10 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nonsense | amod |
| 11 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | _ | 4 calls | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 calls | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 calls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | someone | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | nonsense in a quote | a classmate's faith | 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: What is the best response?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 response | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 response | amod |
| 5 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best response | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Say it's not okay to mock beliefs; you can disagree politely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 okay | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 okay | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 okay | advmod |
| 5 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 mock | mark |
| 7 | mock | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 okay | csubj |
| 8 | beliefs | belief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mock | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 disagree | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 disagree | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 disagree | aux |
| 12 | disagree | disagree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Say | conj |
| 13 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 12 disagree | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | it | okay property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mock | to-infinitive | beliefs | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belief=Theme | |||||
| 4 | disagree | can | you | politely property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Laugh along so you are not left out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | along | along | ADV | _ | 1 Laugh | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 7 left | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 left | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux:pass |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 left | advmod |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Laugh | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 left | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | imperative | you not said here | along property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not leave out | present · passive | you | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Mock that person's own faith back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mock | mock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 faith | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 person | det |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 faith | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 person | case |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 faith | amod |
| 6 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 faith | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Say nothing ever, because it is really none of your business at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Say | obj |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 nothing | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 none | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 none | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 none | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 none | cop |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 none | advmod |
| 9 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 1 Say | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 business | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 business | nmod:poss |
| 12 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 none | nmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 none | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | none | all | of your business | tree rules |
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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