Test 8 · The Ten Commandments

my sister: «honour your parents means do whatever they say, forever, even when you're 50». Better answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister, parents, you · What happens: honour, mean, do, say, be · To what, where: parents, whatever, 50 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 7 «The Ten Commandments» 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: my sister: «honour your parents means do whatever they say, forever, even when you're 50».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 honour	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 honour	punct
5	honour	honour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sister	parataxis
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 parents	nmod:poss
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 honour	obj
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 means	ccomp
10	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 do	obj
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 whatever	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 forever	punct
14	forever	forever	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 50	punct
16	even	even	ADV	_	20 50	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 50	advmod
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 50	nsubj
19	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 50	cop
20	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 do	obl
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 50	punct
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	honour in a quote	infinitive		your parents		tree rules
2	mean in a quote	present	my sister			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	infinitive		whatever		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	parents = parent		forever property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	you	50		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: Better answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

It means giving them all your money

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	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 giving	iobj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 money	det:predet
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 money	nmod:poss
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 giving	obj

#	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	give not said to happen	gerund		your money	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient money=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It means respect and care for them, including when they are old

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	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 care	cc
5	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 means	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 care	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 old	punct
9	including	including	ADP	_	13 old	case
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 old	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 old	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 old	cop
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 care	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It	respect		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Topic
2	care	infinitive			for them = they	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=Theme
3	is	present	they		old property	tree rules

Option 3

It means never disagreeing with them about anything, even when they are wrong

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	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 disagreeing	advmod
4	disagreeing	disagree	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 disagreeing	obl
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 anything	case
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 disagreeing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wrong	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	14 wrong	advmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 wrong	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 wrong	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wrong	cop
14	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 means	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not disagree not said to happen	gerund		with them = they; about anything	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent about anything=Topic
3	is	present	they	wrong property	tree rules

Option 4

It means only obeying until you are ten

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	only	only	ADV	_	4 obeying	advmod
4	obeying	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 means	xcomp
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 ten	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 ten	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ten	cop
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 obeying	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	It		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	obey not said to happen	gerund			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	you	ten	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/religion-ethics/7-the-ten-commandments/t8/