Test 9 · ★★ · Rights, duties and community dilemmas

"Kids don't get a say in school rules, cos adults know best, end of." What is weak about this?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kids, adults, end · What happens: not get, know, rule, be · To what, where: say, school rules, cos

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: "Kids don't get a say in school rules, cos adults know best, end of."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
2	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 say	det
7	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 rules	case
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rules	compound
10	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cos	punct
12	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rules	appos
13	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 know	nsubj
14	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cos	acl:relcl
15	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 know	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 end	punct
17	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rules	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	17 end	case
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not get in a quote	present · do-support	Kids	a say	school rules of end		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer say=Stimulus
2	know in a quote	present	adults	cos not said here		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cos=Stimulus
3	rule in a quote		end				nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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 weak about this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

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

It gives no reason why children's views about their own school don't count

The tree, 15 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	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 reason	det
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 count	advmod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 views	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 children	case
8	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 count	nsubj
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 school	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 school	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 school	amod
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 views	nmod
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 count	aux
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 count	advmod
15	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reason	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	It	no reason		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	not count	present · do-support	children's views about views's own school			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	view		children		about views's own school	nom view «cognition transitive»: poss=agent about=obl

Option 2

It respects children's voices too much

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 respects	nsubj
2	respects	respect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 voices	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 children	case
5	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 respects	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 respects	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	respect	present	It	children's voices					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus

Option 3

Nothing; adults are never wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrong	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 wrong	advmod
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	adults					wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

It is too long and full of reasons

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	4 long	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 full	cc
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 long	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 reasons	case
8	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					long property	tree rules
2	be							of reasons	tree rules

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