Test 11 · ★ · Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness

Why might people stop believing someone who exaggerates all the time?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: stop, believe, exaggerate · To what, where: someone

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 stop	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 believing	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 exaggerates	nsubj
8	exaggerates	exaggerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 someone	acl:relcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 time	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exaggerates	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	stop	might	people			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	believe	gerund	people not said here	someone		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus
3	exaggerate	present			time	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.

The options

Option 1

Because exaggerating is against the law in most places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	2 exaggerating	mark
2	exaggerating	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 law	conj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 law	cop
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 law	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 law	det
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 places	case
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 places	amod
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 law	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	gerund							tree rules
2	is	present				most places		against the law	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They learn not to trust what that person says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 learn	nsubj
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 trust	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 trust	mark
5	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 learn	ccomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 says	obj
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 person	det
8	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trust	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	learn	present	They	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not trust	to-infinitive		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	that person	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Because people never believe anything children say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 believe	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 believe	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 believe	advmod
4	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 believe	obj
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 anything	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not believe	present	people	anything					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	children						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Because they are jealous of other people's good stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 jealous	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 jealous	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	cop
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 stories	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stories	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 people	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stories	amod
10	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 jealous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					of other people's good stories; jealous property	tree rules

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