Test 10 · What is an ethics olympiad?

Which shows a reasoned view, not just an opinion?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: show · To what, where: reasoned view

This is test 10 of lesson 36 «What is an ethics olympiad?» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 view	det
4	reasoned	reasoned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 view	amod
5	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 opinion	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 opinion	advmod
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 opinion	advmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 opinion	det
10	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 view	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present		a reasoned view and a opinion					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent view=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

"Pets in class are a bad idea, trust me, I know it"

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pets	punct
2	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 idea	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 class	case
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pets	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 idea	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 idea	det
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 idea	amod
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 trust	punct
10	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 idea	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 trust	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 idea	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 know	obj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Pets in class	a bad idea	tree rules
2	trust in a quote	infinitive		me	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	know in a quote	present	I	idea	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"Pets in class are a bad idea because some children are allergic"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pets	punct
2	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 idea	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 class	case
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pets	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 idea	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 idea	det
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 idea	amod
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 allergic	mark
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 children	det
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 allergic	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 allergic	cop
13	allergic	allergic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 idea	acl:relcl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 allergic	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Pets in class	a bad idea					tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	some children	a bad idea not said here				allergic property	tree rules

Option 3

"Pets in class are a bad idea and that is just what I think"

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pets	punct
2	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 idea	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 class	case
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pets	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 idea	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 idea	det
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 idea	amod
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 what	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 what	advmod
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 idea	conj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 think	nsubj
15	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Pets in class	a bad idea	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	that		tree rules
3	think speech: other in a quote	present	I		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

"Pets in class are a bad idea, everyone says so"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 idea	punct
2	Pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 idea	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 class	case
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pets	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 idea	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 idea	det
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 idea	amod
8	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 idea	punct
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	so	so	ADV	_	11 says	advmod
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Pets in class	a bad idea					tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	everyone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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