Test 10 · ★ · Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness

Judge's follow-up: "Is it ever right to stay silent when a friend is bullied?"

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: up · What happens: be, bully · To what, where: friend

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Judge	Judge	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 up	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Judge	case
3	follow	follow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 up	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
5	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
8	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stay	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stay	nsubj
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 right	advmod
11	right	right	ADV	_	13 stay	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stay	mark
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 up	conj
14	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stay	xcomp
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 bullied	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 friend	det
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bullied	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 bullied	aux:pass
19	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 stay	advcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 up	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	up					right, silent, stay property	tree rules
2	bully in a quote	present · passive		a friend					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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

Yes, because it isn't your fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 fight	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fight	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 fight	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fight	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fight	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fight	advmod
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fight	nmod:poss
8	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	it	your fight					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, because the friend might be the bully later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 bully	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bully	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 bully	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bully	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bully	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 bully	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bully	det
9	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 bully	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	might	the friend	the bully				late property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No; staying silent can let it go on, so tell an adult and support them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 let	discourse
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 let	csubj
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 staying	xcomp
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	on	on	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 tell	advmod
12	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	parataxis
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 adult	det
14	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 support	cc
16	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 support	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	stay	gerund				silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	can	staying	it			tree rules
3	go on	infinitive					vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
5	support	infinitive		them = they			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 4

No, because you should hit the bully back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hit	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 hit	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hit	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hit	aux
6	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bully	det
8	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hit	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 hit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit back	should	you	the bully					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bully=Co-Theme

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