Test 3 · ★ · Joseph and his brothers

Ben came top in the test and keeps telling everyone "I'm smarter than all of you lot." Like Joseph with his dreams, what's the problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ben, Joseph · What happens: come, keep, tell, be, dream · To what, where: test, everyone, problem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 5 «Joseph and his brothers» 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: Ben came top in the test and keeps telling everyone "I'm smarter than all of you lot."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 came	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 test	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 test	det
6	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 keeps	cc
8	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
9	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keeps	xcomp
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 telling	iobj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 smarter	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 smarter	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 smarter	cop
14	smarter	smart	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 telling	advmod
15	than	than	ADP	_	19 lot	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 lot	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 all	nmod
19	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 smarter	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Ben		the test	top property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in test=Location
2	keep	present	Ben not said here				tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	Ben not said here	everyone			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient
4	is in a quote	present	Ben			than lot; smart 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.

Sentence 2: Like Joseph with his dreams, what's the problem?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	2 Joseph	case
2	Joseph	Joseph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dreams	obl
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 dreams	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dreams	nmod:poss
5	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 problem	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 problem	obj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 problem	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 problem	det
10	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dreams	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dreams	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the problem					tree rules
2	dream		Joseph						nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's fine because it's true

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 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 true	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 true	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fine property	tree rules
2	is	present	it					true property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Being right isn't the same as being wise in how you speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 right	cop
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 same	csubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 wise	case
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 wise	cop
9	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 same	obl
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	13 speak	mark
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 speak	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 speak	nsubj
13	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 same	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	gerund		right property	tree rules
2	not is	present		same property	tree rules
3	is	gerund		wise property	tree rules
4	speak speech: other	present	you		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He should hide that he came top so that nobody else gets jealous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hide	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	aux
3	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	advcl
7	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	xcomp
8	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 gets	mark
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 so	fixed
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 gets	nsubj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 nobody	advmod
12	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	advcl
13	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hide	should	He		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	he	top property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	present	nobody	jealous property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Coming top is always wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 wrong	csubj
2	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Coming	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 wrong	advmod
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund		top					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location top=Theme
2	is	present	Coming					always, wrong property	tree rules

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