Test 5 · ★★ · Rights, duties and community dilemmas

A judge asks: "Should you help your own brother first or a stranger in greater need?" Which answer is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judge, you, answer · What happens: ask, help, be · To what, where: own brother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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 judge asks: "Should you help your own brother first or a stranger in greater need?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct
6	Should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 help	nsubj
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asks	parataxis
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brother	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brother	amod
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	obj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 help	advmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 stranger	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stranger	det
15	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 need	case
17	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 need	amod
18	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stranger	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a judge						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	help in a quote	should	you		your own brother			first property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Beneficiary

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 is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 answer	det
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 best	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 best	cop
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Always my brother first, because strangers don't matter to me at all, ever

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 matter	advmod
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 first	nsubj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Always	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Always	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 matter	mark
7	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 matter	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 matter	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 matter	advmod
10	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 matter	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 matter	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ever	punct
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 matter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	strangers		me	all	ever	always property	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to i=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Both duties matter; it depends how great the need is, so I'd weigh them

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 duties	det
2	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 matter	nsubj
3	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 depends	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 depends	nsubj
6	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 matter	conj
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 great	advmod
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 depends	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 need	det
10	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 great	conj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 great	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 weigh	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 weigh	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 weigh	nsubj
15	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 weigh	aux
16	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 matter	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 weigh	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	matter	present	both duties			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	depend	present	it			vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			great property	tree rules
4	weigh	would	I	duties = duty		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme they=Value

Option 3

Always the stranger, because family duties don't count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 stranger	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 count	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 count	mark
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 duties	compound
7	duties	duty	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 stranger	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count	present · do-support	family duties						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Neither, because helping is not my job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	4 helping	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	4 helping	mark
4	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 job	csubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 job	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 job	advmod
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 job	nmod:poss
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	gerund						neither property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	present	helping	my job					tree rules

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