Test 11 · ★★ · Lifeboat choices

Who should get the one medicine, a strong adult or a very sick child? Which answer reasons best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get · To what, where: one medicine

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Lifeboat choices» 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: Who should get the one medicine, a strong adult or a very sick child?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 get	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 medicine	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 medicine	compound
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 adult	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adult	det
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 adult	amod
10	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 medicine	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 child	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 child	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 sick	advmod
14	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 child	amod
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 medicine	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	should		the one medicine and a strong adult or a sick child					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer medicine=Stimulus

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 reasons best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 best	nsubj
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reasons	compound
3	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 best	nsubj
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Whoever gets to the doctor's door first should have it, no questions asked

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doctor	det
5	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 doctor	case
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 have	advmod
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 have	aux
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 gets	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 questions	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 questions	det
14	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gets	parataxis
15	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 questions	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	Whoever		to the doctor's door result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to door=Result
2	have	should		door	first property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	ask speech: ask	participle		no questions not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The child, because the adult is rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rude	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 rude	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rude	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rude	cop
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 child	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the adult	the child not said here				rude property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Consider who needs it most and who it would help most, and choose fairly

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Consider	consider	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Consider	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needs	obj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 help	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 help	cc
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 help	nsubj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 help	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needs	advcl
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 help	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 choose	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 choose	cc
14	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Consider	conj
15	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	14 choose	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	consider	imperative	you not said here			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	need	present		it		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	help	would				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	choose	infinitive	you not said here		fairly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The adult, because adults are always more important

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 adult	det
2	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 important	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 important	mark
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 important	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 important	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 important	advmod
9	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 adult	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	adults					important property	tree rules

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