Test 2 · ★★ · Dilemmas about truth and friendship

Your mate texts: "ur not gonna grass me up about the vase r u?? we're mates." What is the best reasoned reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, best reasoned reply · What happens: be · To what, where: mates

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 41 «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» 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 mate texts: "ur not gonna grass me up about the vase r u?? we're mates."

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	3 texts	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 texts	compound
3	texts	text	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 r	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 texts	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 grass	punct
6	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 grass	nmod:poss
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 grass	advmod
8	gonna	gonna	X	_	9 grass	compound
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 texts	appos
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 grass	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 grass	compound
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 vase	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 vase	det
14	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grass	nmod
15	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 r	obj
17	??	??	PUNCT	_	20 mates	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 mates	nsubj
19	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 mates	cop
20	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 r	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 r	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 r	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	we	mates					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 reasoned reply?

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	6 reply	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 reply	amod
5	reasoned	reasoned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reply	amod
6	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only if you give me your new game, then I'll keep quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 give	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 game	nmod:poss
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 game	amod
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 keep	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 keep	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 keep	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 keep	aux
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	advcl
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	you	your new game	me				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient game=Theme
2	keep	future	I				then	quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Mates, yes, but someone else might get blamed, so own up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 own	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 blamed	punct
3	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 blamed	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 blamed	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 blamed	cc
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 blamed	nsubj:pass
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 someone	advmod
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 blamed	aux
9	get	get	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 blamed	aux:pass
10	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Mates	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 own	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 own	advmod
13	own	own	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 own	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	might · passive	Mates not said here	someone					vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	own up	infinitive	Mates						vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

Shut up, you're an idiot and I'm telling everyone right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 idiot	advcl
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Shut	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shut	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 idiot	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 idiot	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 idiot	det
7	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 telling	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 telling	nsubj
10	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 telling	aux
11	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 idiot	conj
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 telling	iobj
13	right	right	ADV	_	14 now	advmod
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 telling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	shut up	participle	you not said here				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	you	a idiot			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	I		everyone	now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient

Option 4

Course not, mates never tell on mates whatever happens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 not	obl:unmarked
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 tell	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 not	punct
4	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 tell	advmod
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 mates	case
8	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tell	obl
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 happens	nsubj
10	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	present	mates			mates			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	present	whatever						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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