Test 11 · ★★ · Rights, duties and community dilemmas

Which statement about free speech is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

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	7 true	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 speech	case
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speech	amod
5	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 statement	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which statement about free speech					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

It means no one may ever disagree with anyone about anything

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 disagree	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 disagree	aux
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 disagree	advmod
7	disagree	disagree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 disagree	obl
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 anything	case
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 anyone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	disagree	may	no one				ever	with anyone	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with anyone=Co-Agent

Option 2

It only applies to grown-up people who are over the age of eighteen

The tree, 14 words

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 applies	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 applies	advmod
3	applies	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 people	case
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 people	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 grown	compound:prt
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 applies	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 age	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 age	cop
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 age	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 age	det
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 people	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 eighteen	case
15	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 age	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	apply	present	It		to grown people	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	grow up	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	grown people	over the age	of eighteen	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is precious, but it does not make cruel words harmless

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 precious	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 precious	cop
3	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 make	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 make	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 make	advmod
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 precious	conj
10	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 words	amod
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	obj
12	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					precious property	tree rules
2	not make	present · do-support	it	cruel words				harmless property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material word=Product

Option 4

It means insults are always good for people and make them tougher

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	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	insults	insult	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 good	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 good	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 make	cc
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 good	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	tougher	tough	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	insults		for people; always, good property	tree rules
3	make	infinitive	insults not said here	insults = insult	tough property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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