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Test 3 · ★★ · Sharing and fairness

A boy at football yells, "Oi, Sam's always picked last cos he's rubbish, deal with it." What is the best-reasoned reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi, boy, reasoned reply · What happens: pick, deal, be, reason · To what, where: Sam

This is test 3 · ★★ 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 boy at football yells, "Oi, Sam's always picked last cos he's rubbish, deal with it."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 deal	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 yells	case
4	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yells	compound
5	yells	yell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 boy	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Oi	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Oi	punct
8	Oi	Oi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 yells	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 picked	punct
10	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 picked	nsubj:pass
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Sam	case
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 picked	advmod
13	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Oi	acl
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 picked	xcomp
15	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	18 rubbish	case
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rubbish	nsubj
17	's	's	PART	_	16 he	case
18	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 picked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 boy	punct
20	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 deal	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 deal	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick in a quote	participle · passive	Oi not said here	Sam				cos rubbish; always, last property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	deal in a quote	infinitive	a boy at football yells Oi					with rubbish	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=Theme

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	7 reply	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 reply	amod
7	reply	reply	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 reply						tree rules
2	reason	participle							vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Say nothing, because picking teams has nothing to do with fairness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 Say	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 has	mark
5	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 has	csubj
6	teams	team	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 picking	obj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	parataxis
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 has	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nothing	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 fairness	case
12	fairness	fairness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	pick	gerund		teams					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent team=Patient
3	have	present	picking	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	picking not said here	nothing not said here				with fairness	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Being picked last hurts; drawing names is fairer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 picked	aux:pass
2	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fairer	csubj
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hurts	amod
4	hurts	hurt	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 picked	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 names	punct
6	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 names	compound
7	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 picked	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fairer	cop
9	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	gerund · passive		last hurts				drawing names obl	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: hurt=Patient
2	is	present						fair property	tree rules

Option 3

He's right, rubbish players should always be picked last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 picked	punct
5	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 players	compound
6	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 picked	nsubj:pass
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 picked	aux
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 picked	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 picked	aux:pass
10	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	parataxis
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 picked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	pick	should · passive		rubbish players				always, last property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Tell him he's an idiot and kick the ball at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 idiot	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idiot	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 idiot	det
6	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kick	cc
8	kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ball	det
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kick	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	present	he	a idiot					tree rules
3	kick	infinitive	you not said here	the ball				at him = he	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ball=Patient at he=Location

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