Test 8 · ★★ · Lifeboat choices

"It's too hard, there's no right answer, so I'll just do nothing." What is wrong with this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: right answer, I · What happens: be, do · To what, where: nothing

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: "It's too hard, there's no right answer, so I'll just do nothing."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hard	expl
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 's	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 's	expl
8	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	parataxis
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 answer	det
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answer	amod
11	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 's	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 do	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 do	advmod
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	conj
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 do	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present				hard property	tree rules
2	be in a quote	present	no right answer		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do in a quote	future	I	nothing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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 wrong with this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wrong	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with this; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Even with no perfect answer we can choose the least bad one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	8 choose	advmod
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 answer	case
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 answer	det
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 choose	obl
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 choose	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 choose	aux
8	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
10	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 one	amod
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 choose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	can	we	the least bad one				with no perfect answer	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 2

Nothing; doing nothing is always the safest choice in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 choice	nsubj
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 doing	punct
3	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Nothing	conj
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 doing	obj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 choice	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 choice	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 choice	det
8	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 choice	amod
9	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 choice	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund	Nothing not said here	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	is a	present	Nothing	the safest choice			in the end	always property	tree rules

Option 3

It is wrong only because the teacher will be cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	10 cross	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 cross	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cross	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cross	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 cross	cop
10	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wrong	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					wrong property	tree rules
2	is	future	the teacher					cross property	tree rules

Option 4

It is right, because hard questions don't count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	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 count	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 count	mark
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 questions	amod
7	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 count	nsubj
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	3 right	parataxis

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

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