Test 2 · What is an ethics olympiad?

Your classmate Amir, who is Muslim, asks: "Can I be in the olympiad team if I'm not Christian?" What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: classmate, best answer · What happens: be, ask, not be · To what, where: olympiad team · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: Your classmate Amir, who is Muslim, asks: "Can I be in the olympiad team if I'm not Christian?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 classmate	nmod:poss
2	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asks	nsubj
3	Amir	Amir	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 classmate	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Muslim	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 Muslim	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Muslim	cop
7	Muslim	Muslim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 classmate	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 classmate	punct
9	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 team	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 team	punct
12	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 team	aux
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 team	nsubj
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 team	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 team	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 team	det
17	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 team	compound
18	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asks	ccomp
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 Christian	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Christian	nsubj
21	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Christian	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 Christian	advmod
23	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 asks	ccomp
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 Christian	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Christian	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your classmate		muslim property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	present	Your classmate			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	can	Your classmate = classmate	the olympiad team		tree rules
4	not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Your classmate = classmate		christian property	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.

Sentence 2: What is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it is about careful thinking, and anyone of any faith or none can join

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 thinking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thinking	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thinking	cop
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 thinking	case
6	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thinking	amod
7	thinking	thinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 join	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 join	cc
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 join	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 faith	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 faith	det
13	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 anyone	nmod
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 none	cc
15	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	13 faith	conj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 join	aux
17	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thinking	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					about careful thinking	tree rules
2	join	can	anyone						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, only people from one religion can think well about right and wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 think	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 people	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 people	advmod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 think	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 religion	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 religion	nummod
7	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 think	aux
9	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 think	advmod
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 right	advmod
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 think	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wrong	cc
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	can	people from one religion					well property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, but he must agree with the Christians on every single case

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 agree	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 agree	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 agree	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 agree	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 agree	aux
6	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 Christians	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Christians	det
9	Christians	Christian	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 agree	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 case	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 case	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 case	amod
13	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 agree	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	must	he					with the Christians; on every single case	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with christian=Co-Agent on case=Topic

Option 4

No, ethics olympiads are only for people who go to church each week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 olympiads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	ethics	ethics	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 olympiads	compound
4	olympiads	olympiad	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 people	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 people	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 people	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 people	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 church	case
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 week	det
14	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	ethics olympiads					for people	tree rules
2	go	present	people			church	week		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location

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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