Test 4 · The Golden Rule in many traditions

Your gran loves loud singing on her birthday; your shy friend would die of embarrassment. Using the platinum rule, what do you do for your friend?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gran, shy friend, you · What happens: love, sing, die, use, do · To what, where: birthday, platinum rule

This is test 4 of lesson 38 «The Golden Rule in many traditions» 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 gran loves loud singing on her birthday; your shy friend would die of embarrassment.

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 gran	nmod:poss
2	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loves	nsubj
3	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loves	xcomp
5	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 loud	advcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 birthday	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 birthday	nmod:poss
8	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 singing	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 die	punct
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friend	nmod:poss
11	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friend	amod
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 die	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 die	aux
14	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 loves	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 embarrassment	case
16	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 die	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	love	present	Your gran		loud property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	sing speech: express	gerund	Your gran not said here	gran's birthday		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on birthday=Location
3	die	would	your shy friend		of embarrassment	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of embarrassment=Causer

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: Using the platinum rule, what do you do for your friend?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rule	det
3	platinum	platinum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	compound
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rule	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 friend	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friend	nmod:poss
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Using	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		the platinum rule					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient
2	do	present · do-support	you	the platinum rule				for your friend	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Loud singing in front of the whole class, as gran likes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 singing	amod
2	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 singing	nmod
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 class	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 class	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 class	amod
8	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 front	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 likes	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 likes	mark
11	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 likes	nsubj
12	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 singing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	gran	Loud singing in front of the whole class not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot singing=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A quiet card and a small gift, as she would like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 card	det
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 card	amod
3	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gift	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gift	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gift	amod
7	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 card	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 like	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 like	aux
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 card	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	would	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Loud singing, because the Golden Rule says do what you like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 singing	amod
2	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 says	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rule	det
6	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Rule	amod
7	Rule	Rule	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 like	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
12	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 do	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Golden Rule	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	infinitive		tree rules
3	like	present	you	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, because people differ and so rules never help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 differ	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 differ	mark
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 differ	nsubj
5	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 help	cc
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 help	advmod
8	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 help	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 help	advmod
10	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 differ	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	differ	present	people						vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not help	present	rules						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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