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An ethics judge asks: «Why might all these different customs share food?» What is the best-reasoned answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ethics judge, different customs, reasoned answer · What happens: ask, share, be, reason · To what, where: food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 65 «How other people remember: Día de los Muertos, Qingming and more» 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: An ethics judge asks: «Why might all these different customs share food?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 judge	det
2	ethics	ethics	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 judge	compound
3	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 share	punct
7	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 share	advmod
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 share	aux
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 customs	det:predet
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 customs	det
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 customs	amod
12	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 share	nsubj
13	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	conj
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 share	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a ethics judge						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	share in a quote	might	all different customs	food					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: What is the best-reasoned answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 reasoned	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 best	punct
6	reasoned	reason	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 answer	amod
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the reasoned answer						tree rules
2	reason	participle							vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because food is cheaper than flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 cheaper	mark
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheaper	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cheaper	cop
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	food					than flowers; cheap property	tree rules

Option 2

Because funerals are really birthday parties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	2 funerals	case
2	funerals	funeral	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 parties	obl
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 parties	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 parties	advmod
5	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 parties	compound
6	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		birthday parties				because funerals	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Eating together comforts people and keeps them close in grief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 comforts	csubj
2	together	together	ADV	_	1 Eating	advmod
3	comforts	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 comforts	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keeps	cc
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comforts	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keeps	obj
8	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keeps	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 grief	case
10	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund						together property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	comfort	present	Eating	people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer
3	keep	present	Eating not said here	people				close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4

Because the dead are hungry and must be fed by the family every single day

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 hungry	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dead	det
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hungry	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fed	cc
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fed	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 fed	aux:pass
9	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hungry	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 family	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 family	det
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fed	obl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hungry	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dead				day	hungry property	tree rules
2	feed	must · passive	the family						vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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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