Test 9 · ★ · Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 37 «Three ways of thinking: rules, consequences, character» 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	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Virtues come only from luck and cannot be learned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Virtues	virtue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 luck	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 luck	case
5	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 learned	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 learned	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 learned	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 learned	aux:pass
10	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 come	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Virtues			luck			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from luck=Initial_Location
2	not learn	can · passive	Virtues not said here						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»

Option 2

A single kind act makes a person kind for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 act	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 act	amod
3	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 act	compound
4	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kind	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	compound
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a single kind act	a person kind					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent kind=Product for ever=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Virtues and vices both grow by being practised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Virtues	virtue	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 vices	cc
3	vices	vice	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Virtues	conj
4	both	both	ADV	_	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 practised	mark
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 practised	aux:pass
8	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Virtues and vices					both property	tree rules
2	practise	gerund · passive	Virtues and vices not said here						tree rules

Option 4

Vices disappear by themselves when we grow up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vices	vice	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 disappear	nsubj
2	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 themselves	case
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 disappear	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 grow	advmod
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 grow	nsubj
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 disappear	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 grow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	present	Vices					by Vices = vice	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow up	present	we						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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