Test 9 · Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together

What would happen if nobody in a town ever told the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, tell · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 81 «Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together» 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	_	10 told	mark
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 told	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 town	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 town	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nobody	nmod
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 told	advmod
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 truth	det
12	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	the truth			ever		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

People could not trust shops, doctors, friends or even road signs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trust	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 trust	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 trust	advmod
4	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trust	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 doctors	punct
7	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shops	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 friends	punct
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shops	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 signs	cc
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 road	advmod
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 signs	compound
13	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shops	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trust	could	People	shops and doctors and friends or road signs					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme

Option 2

Life would be much more fun and exciting, and nobody would ever get upset about anything at all

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fun	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fun	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fun	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 fun	amod
6	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 exciting	cc
8	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fun	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 get	cc
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 get	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 get	aux
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 get	advmod
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fun	conj
15	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 get	xcomp
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 anything	case
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 upset	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	Life	more fun			tree rules
2	be		Life not said here				tree rules
3	get	would	nobody		ever	upset property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Only the shops would suffer, and everyone else would be fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 shops	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shops	det
3	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 suffer	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 suffer	aux
5	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fine	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fine	cc
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 fine	nsubj
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 everyone	advmod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 fine	cop
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 suffer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suffer	would	the shops						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	would	everyone					fine property	tree rules

Option 4

Nothing would change, because people never listen anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 listen	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 listen	mark
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 listen	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 listen	advmod
8	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 change	conj
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 listen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not listen	present	people					anyway property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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