Test 10 · ★★ · Rights, duties and community dilemmas

A boy from Ukraine joins your class and speaks little English. Which plan is kindest and wisest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, plan · What happens: join, speak, be · To what, where: class, little English · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Rights, duties and community dilemmas» 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 boy from Ukraine joins your class and speaks little English.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joins	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Ukraine	case
4	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	joins	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 class	nmod:poss
7	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 joins	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 speaks	cc
9	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 joins	conj
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 English	amod
11	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 speaks	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 joins	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	present	a boy from Ukraine	your class					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Patient
2	speak speech: other	present	a boy from Ukraine not said here	little English					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 plan is kindest and wisest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kindest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kindest	cop
4	kindest	kind	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wisest	cc
6	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 kindest	conj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 kindest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which plan					kind property	tree rules
2	be		which plan not said here						tree rules

The options

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

Be his buddy, show him around and include him in games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 buddy	cop
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 buddy	nmod:poss
3	buddy	buddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 buddy	punct
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 show	iobj
7	around	around	ADV	_	5 show	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 include	cc
9	include	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 show	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 include	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 games	case
12	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 include	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		his buddy			tree rules
2	show around	infinitive	his buddy		him = he	around property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	include	present	his buddy not said here	buddy		in games goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent he=Theme in game=Goal

Option 2

Tell him to sit at the back so he isn't in anybody's way

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sit	mark
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	15 way	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 way	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 way	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 way	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
13	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 way	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 anybody	case
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		the back	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at back=Location
3	not is	present	he		anybody's way	tree rules

Option 3

Make jokes about his accent so he fits in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Make	obj
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 accent	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 accent	nmod:poss
5	accent	accent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jokes	nmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 fits	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fits	nsubj
8	fits	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Make	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 fits	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	jokes	about his accent	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset joke=Product
2	fit in	present	he			vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	accent		his = he			nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Wait for him to learn English before talking to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wait	obl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 learn	mark
5	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
6	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 learn	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 talking	mark
8	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 learn	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			for him = he	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	to-infinitive	you not said here	English			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic
3	talk	gerund	you not said here		English		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

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