Test 6 · ★★ · Sharing and fairness

Your sister moans, "Why should I share my sweets with Ben? He never shares his." What is the best-reasoned answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, I, Ben, reasoned answer · What happens: moan, share, not share, be, reason · To what, where: sweets, his

This is test 6 · ★★ 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 sister moans, "Why should I share my sweets with Ben?

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 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moans	nsubj
3	moans	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 share	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 share	punct
6	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 share	advmod
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 share	aux
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 share	nsubj
9	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 moans	conj
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sweets	nmod:poss
11	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 share	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 Ben	case
13	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 share	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 moans	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	present	Your sister						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	share in a quote	should	I	my sweets				with Ben	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: He never shares his."

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 shares	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 shares	advmod
3	shares	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 shares	obj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shares	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 shares	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not share	present	Ben	his = he					tree rules

Sentence 3: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Take his sweets when he isn't looking, so it's fair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sweets	nmod:poss
3	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 looking	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looking	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 looking	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 looking	advmod
8	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Take	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fair	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 fair	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fair	expl
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fair	cop
13	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Take	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	his sweets		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Theme
2	not look	present · progressive	he			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present			fair property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Share because it is kind, not only to get something back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Share	share	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 kind	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kind	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Share	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 get	advmod
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 get	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kind	conj
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 get	obj
12	back	back	ADV	_	10 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	share	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is	present	it		kind property	tree rules
3	not get back	to-infinitive		something		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

Option 3

You should never share with Ben, because he deserves nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 share	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 share	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 share	advmod
4	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Ben	case
6	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 share	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 deserves	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 deserves	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 deserves	nsubj
10	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 share	parataxis
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 deserves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not share	should	You					with Ben	tree rules
2	deserve	present	Ben	nothing					tree rules

Option 4

You must share all your sweets, every single time, forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 share	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 share	aux
3	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sweets	det:predet
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sweets	nmod:poss
6	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 share	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 time	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sweets	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 forever	punct
12	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 share	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	must	You	your sweets and every single time				forever property	tree rules

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