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Test 1 · ★ · Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness

Ben dropped Mum's phone and the screen cracked; he wants to say the cat did it. What is the best-reasoned choice?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, screen, cat, best reasoned choice · What happens: drop, crack, want, say, do, be · To what, where: phone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 34 «Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness» 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: Ben dropped Mum's phone and the screen cracked; he wants to say the cat did it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 phone	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Mum	case
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropped	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cracked	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 screen	det
8	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cracked	nsubj
9	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dropped	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 wants	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wants	nsubj
12	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dropped	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wants	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cat	det
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 did	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dropped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	Ben	Mum's phone					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme
2	crack	past	the screen						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	want	present	screen						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	screen not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do	past	the cat	phone					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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-reasoned choice?

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	7 choice	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 choice	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct
6	reasoned	reason	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 choice	amod
7	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best reasoned choice						tree rules
2	reason	participle							vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Say nothing, because it was an accident anyway

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	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 accident	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 accident	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 accident	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 accident	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 accident	det
8	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Say	ccomp
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 accident	advmod

#	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	past	it	a accident				anyway property	tree rules

Option 2

Blame the cat, because nobody can punish a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blame	blame	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blame	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 punish	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 punish	mark
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 punish	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 punish	aux
8	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Blame	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 punish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	imperative	you not said here	the cat					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme
2	punish	can	nobody	a cat					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient

Option 3

Hide the phone so nobody knows anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phone	det
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obj
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 knows	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 knows	nsubj
6	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hide	advcl
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here	the phone					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Patient
2	know	present	nobody	anything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tell the truth; a lie might be found out and would break Mum's trust

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 truth	det
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lie	det
6	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	nsubj:pass
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 found	aux:pass
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Tell	parataxis
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 found	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 break	cc
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 break	aux
13	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 found	conj
14	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 trust	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Mum	case
16	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the truth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
2	find out	might · passive		a lie					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	break	would		Mum's trust					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient
4	trust		Mum						nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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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