Test 1 · ★★ · Sharing and fairness

Your brother grabs the bigger half of the last brownie and says, "I cut it, so I pick, them's the rules." How do you put him right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, them, you · What happens: grab, say, cut, pick, be, put · To what, where: bigger half, half, rules, brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 43 «Sharing and fairness» 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 brother grabs the bigger half of the last brownie and says, "I cut it, so I pick, them's the 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: How do you put him right?

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The older child always gets the bigger piece, so that's fine

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The fair rule is one cuts and the other chooses, so you pick first

Option 3

Brownies should never be shared, so neither of you gets one

Option 4

He is right, the person who cuts should always get first pick

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/43-sharing-and-fairness/t1/