Test 3 · ★ · Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness

"just say you love the drawing, who cares, it's a lie but whatever" What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, drawing · What happens: say, love, care, be · To what, where: drawing, lie, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 love	nsubj
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 drawing	det
7	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 love	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cares	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cares	nsubj
10	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 drawing	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lie	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lie	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lie	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lie	det
15	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	parataxis
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 whatever	cc
17	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lie	nmod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 answer	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 answer	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 answer	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 answer	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 answer	amod
23	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 whatever	conj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	love in a quote	present	you	the drawing		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drawing=Stimulus
3	care in a quote	present	the drawing			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a in a quote	present	drawing	a lie	whatever nmod	tree rules
5	be speech: assert	present		the best answer		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 · ← Mova's choice

Say nothing and walk off so you don't have to choose

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	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 walk	cc
4	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 walk	compound:prt
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 have	advmod
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 have	advmod
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 walk	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 choose	mark
12	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	walk off	infinitive	you not said here		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not have	present · do-support	you		tree rules
4	choose	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You can be kind and honest: praise what you really like in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 honest	cc
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kind	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 praise	punct
8	praise	praise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	parataxis
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 praise	obj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 like	advmod
12	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 like	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	can	You		kind property	tree rules
2	be		You not said here			tree rules
3	praise	infinitive				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	like	present	you	it		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

Lie, because people's feelings matter more than the truth every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 matter	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 matter	mark
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 feelings	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 people	case
6	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 matter	nsubj
7	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Lie	parataxis
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 matter	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 truth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 truth	det
11	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 more	obl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matter	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	matter	present	people's feelings	more			time		tree rules

Option 4

Tell her it's rubbish, because truth is all that counts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rubbish	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rubbish	cop
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 is	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 is	mark
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 is	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 counts	cop
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 counts	det:predet
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 counts	nsubj
12	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a	present	it	rubbish			tree rules
3	is	present	that			count property	tree rules

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