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Test 8 · ★ · Animals

A judge asks: "Is it ever right to kill an insect?" Which answer is best-reasoned?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judge · What happens: ask, be, reason · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 46 «Animals» 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 asks: "Is it ever right to kill an insect?"

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a judge						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is not said to happen, in a quote	present	judge					kill, 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: Which answer is best-reasoned?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reasoned	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reasoned	aux:pass
4	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 reasoned	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct
6	reasoned	reason	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reasoned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reason	present · passive		which answer				well property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1

Always, because insects are tiny and don't count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 tiny	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Always	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 tiny	mark
4	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tiny	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	cop
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 count	cc
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 count	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 count	advmod
10	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tiny	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	insects					always, tiny property	tree rules
2	not count	present · do-support	insects not said here						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Never, because every single insect matters exactly as much as a person

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 matters	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Never	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 matters	mark
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 insect	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 insect	amod
6	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matters	nsubj
7	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 matters	advmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 person	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 much	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present	every single insect						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

I don't know, because it's an insect question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 question	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 question	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 question	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 question	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 question	det
10	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 question	compound
11	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	I						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	it	a insect question					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sometimes, for safety or health, but killing just for fun is wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 safety	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 safety	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 safety	case
4	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 health	cc
6	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 safety	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wrong	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 wrong	cc
9	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 wrong	csubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 fun	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 fun	case
12	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 killing	obj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wrong	cop
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 safety	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	gerund		fun					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Theme
2	is	present	killing					wrong property	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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