Test 12 · ★★ · Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties

Who showed moral courage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: show · To what, where: moral courage

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 courage	amod
4	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 showed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past		moral courage					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient

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

Zoe, who stayed quiet while Sam was teased by the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 teased	mark
7	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 teased	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 teased	aux:pass
9	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stayed	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 others	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 others	det
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 teased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Zoe					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tease	past · passive	the others	Sam					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Lily, who told the class it was her pen that leaked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lily	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 class	det
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pen	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pen	cop
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pen	nmod:poss
10	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 leaked	nsubj
12	leaked	leak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pen	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Lily		the class	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient
2	is a	past	class	Lily's pen		tree rules
3	leak	past	Lily's pen			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3

Max, who climbed a tree to show off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 show	mark
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 climbed	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 show	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	Max	a tree					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	show off	to-infinitive	Max not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Finn, who blamed the leak on the new kid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Finn	Finn	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 blamed	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blamed	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 blamed	nsubj
4	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leak	det
6	leak	leak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blamed	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 kid	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kid	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kid	amod
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blamed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	past	Finn	the leak				on the new kid	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leak=Theme

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