Test 11 · ★★ · Cheating, rules and games

A judge at the olympiad asks: "Is it ever right to break a rule?" What is the best-reasoned answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: judge, reasoned answer · What happens: ask, be, reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 44 «Cheating, rules and games» 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: "Is it ever right to break a rule?"

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	_	6 asks	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 break	punct
9	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 break	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 break	nsubj
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 right	advmod
12	right	right	ADV	_	14 break	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 break	mark
14	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asks	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 rule	det
16	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 break	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 break	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 break	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	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 not said to happen, in a quote	present	judge					break, right 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sometimes, when a more important duty like saving someone outweighs it, but not just because it suits me

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 suits	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 outweighs	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 duty	det
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 important	advmod
6	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 duty	amod
7	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 outweighs	nsubj
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 saving	mark
9	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 duty	acl
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 saving	obj
11	outweighs	outweigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 suits	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 outweighs	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 suits	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 suits	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 suits	advmod
16	just	just	ADV	_	19 suits	advmod
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 suits	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 suits	nsubj
19	suits	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 suits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	save	gerund	a important duty not said here	someone		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
2	outweigh	present	a important duty	it		vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	not suit	present	duty	me	sometimes property	tree rules

Option 2

Always, whenever the rule feels annoying or boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 feels	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Always	punct
3	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	6 feels	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rule	det
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feels	nsubj
6	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 feels	xcomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 boring	cc
9	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 annoying	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	the rule					always, annoying property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Only when you are sure that nobody will find out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 sure	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sure	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sure	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sure	cop
5	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 find	mark
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 find	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sure	ccomp
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 find	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					sure property	tree rules
2	find out	future	nobody						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Never, because rules are rules and that is the end of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 rules	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Never	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 rules	mark
4	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rules	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rules	cop
6	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 end	cc
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 end	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 end	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rules	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	rules	rules and the end					tree rules
2	is a	present	that	the end			of end		tree rules

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