Exam question 4 · Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness

Ascertain the formulation of the Golden Rule as taught by Jesus.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, teach · To what, where: formulation

This is exam question 4 of lesson 34 «Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 formulation	det
3	formulation	formulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Rule	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rule	det
6	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Rule	amod
7	Rule	Rule	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 formulation	nmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 taught	mark
9	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Ascertain	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 Jesus	case
11	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 taught	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the formulation of the Golden Rule					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent formulation=Topic
2	teach speech: other	participle	you not said here					by Jesus	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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

Do unto others as they have done unto you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	unto	unto	ADP	_	3 others	case
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Do	obl
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 done	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 done	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 done	aux
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Do	advcl
8	unto	unto	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 done	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here					unto others	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present · perfect	others = other					unto you	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Do unto others as your elders instruct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	unto	unto	ADP	_	3 others	case
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Do	obl
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 instruct	mark
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 elders	nmod:poss
6	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 instruct	nsubj
7	instruct	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Do	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here					unto others	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	instruct speech: other	present	your elders						vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Do unto others solely as they deserve, according to their merit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	unto	unto	ADP	_	3 others	case
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Do	obl
4	solely	solely	ADV	_	12 merit	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 deserve	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 deserve	nsubj
7	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 merit	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 deserve	punct
9	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 merit	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 according	fixed
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 merit	nmod:poss
12	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here	unto others; accord others's merit	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	deserve	present	others = other		tree rules
3	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	unto	unto	ADP	_	3 others	case
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Do	obl
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Do	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	obj
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	unto	unto	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	imperative	you not said here		unto others	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	would	you	others = other		tree rules
3	do	infinitive	others = other not said here		unto you	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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