Test 5 · ★★★ · Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people

What would happen if everyone believed illness was a punishment for being bad?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone, illness · What happens: happen, believe, be · To what, where: punishment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 75 «Is it fair? Why bad things happen to good people» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 believed	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 believed	nsubj
6	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 punishment	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 punishment	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 punishment	det
10	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believed	ccomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 bad	case
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 bad	cop
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 punishment	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	believe a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	illness	a punishment		tree rules
4	is	gerund			bad 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.

The options

Option 1

Hospitals would get much better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hospitals	hospital	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Hospitals					good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nothing; it would be harmless

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 harmless	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 harmless	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 harmless	cop
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	it					harmless property	tree rules

Option 3

People would stop getting ill, because they would all try harder to be good

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 getting	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 try	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 try	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 try	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 try	aux
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 try	advmod
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	conj
12	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 try	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	15 good	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 good	cop
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 harder	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	would	People		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	get	gerund	People not said here	ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	try	would	People	all, hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	to-infinitive	People not said here	good property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sick people would be blamed unfairly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blamed	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 blamed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 blamed	aux:pass
5	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	unfairly	unfairly	ADV	_	5 blamed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	would · passive		Sick people				unfairly property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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