Test 9 · ★★ · Lifeboat choices

Which statement about the trolley problem is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 true	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 problem	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 problem	det
5	trolley	trolley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 problem	compound
6	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 statement	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which statement about the trolley problem					true 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone agrees you must always pull the lever and save the five

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 agrees	nsubj
2	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pull	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pull	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 pull	advmod
6	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 agrees	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lever	det
8	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pull	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 save	cc
10	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pull	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 five	det
12	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Everyone			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pull	must	you	the lever	always property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=Theme
3	save	infinitive	you not said here	the five		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent five=Theme

Option 2

It was solved long ago and nobody discusses it

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 solved	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 solved	aux:pass
3	solved	solve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 ago	advmod
5	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 solved	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 discusses	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 discusses	nsubj
8	discusses	discuss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 solved	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 discusses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	solve	past · passive		It				ago property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	discuss speech: other	present	nobody	it					vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Everyone agrees you must never pull the lever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 agrees	nsubj
2	agrees	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 pull	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pull	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 pull	advmod
6	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 agrees	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lever	det
8	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	present	Everyone						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not pull	must	you	the lever					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People still disagree about it, and it is a disputed question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 disagree	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 disagree	advmod
3	disagree	disagree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 disagree	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 question	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 question	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 question	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 question	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 question	det
11	disputed	dispute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 question	amod
12	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 disagree	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	disagree	present	People		still	about it	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	dispute	participle					vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	it	a disputed question			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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