Test 10 · ★★ · Sharing and fairness

A judge at the olympiad asks: "If one child is hungry and another is not, should food be shared equally?" What is the best-reasoned answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judge, one child, reasoned answer · What happens: ask, be, share, reason · To what, where: food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ 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: A judge at the olympiad asks: "If one child is hungry and another is not, should food be shared equally?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asks	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 olympiad	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 olympiad	det
5	olympiad	olympiad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 judge	nmod
6	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 hungry	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 hungry	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 hungry	mark
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 child	nummod
11	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hungry	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hungry	cop
13	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 asks	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 another	cc
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 hungry	conj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 not	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hungry	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shared	punct
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 shared	aux
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shared	nsubj:pass
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 shared	aux:pass
22	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 asks	parataxis
23	equally	equally	ADV	_	22 shared	advmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 asks	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a judge at the olympiad			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	one child		hungry property	tree rules
3	share in a quote	should · passive		food	equally 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-reasoned 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	7 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 reasoned	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct
6	reasoned	reason	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 answer	amod
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the reasoned answer						tree rules
2	reason	participle							vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Sharing by need, because the hungry child is still hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharing	share	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 hungry	csubj
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 need	case
3	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharing	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sharing	punct
5	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	8 child	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sharing	obl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hungry	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 hungry	advmod
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	gerund						by need; because the hungry child	tree rules
2	is	present	Sharing				still	hungry property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, always equal, because fairness can only mean exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 equal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 equal	advmod
4	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mean	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 mean	mark
7	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mean	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 mean	aux
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 mean	advmod
10	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 equal	parataxis
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	13 same	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 same	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	can	fairness	the same					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, the one who is not hungry should get it all to save it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 get	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hungry	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hungry	advmod
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	acl:relcl
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 get	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 it	det
13	to	to	PART	_	14 save	mark
14	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 get	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the one		hungry property	tree rules
2	get	should	the one	it		tree rules
3	save	to-infinitive		it		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

It depends only on which child is more popular in the class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 depends	nsubj
2	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	9 popular	advmod
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	9 popular	mark
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 popular	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 popular	cop
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 popular	advmod
9	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 depends	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 class	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 class	det
12	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 popular	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	present	It						vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	which child			the class		popular property	tree rules

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