Test 11 · White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing

Why is timing important with a kind truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: time

This is test 11 of lesson 83 «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 timing	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 timing	aux
3	timing	time	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 timing	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 truth	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 truth	det
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 truth	amod
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 timing	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 timing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	time	present · progressive						with a kind truth; important property	vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Because timing does not matter at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 matter	mark
2	timing	timing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 matter	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 matter	advmod
5	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	timing			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Because truth is only true at certain times of day, like in the morning before school starts

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 true	mark
2	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 true	advmod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 times	case
7	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 true	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 day	case
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 times	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 morning	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 morning	case
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 morning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 true	parataxis
16	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 starts	mark
17	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 starts	nsubj
18	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 morning	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	truth				time	true property	tree rules
2	start	present	school						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Because you should always wait a year before saying anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 wait	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wait	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 wait	advmod
5	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obl:unmarked
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 saying	mark
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 wait	advcl
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 saying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	should	you				year	always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	you not said here	anything					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The same truth can help at one moment and only hurt at another

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 truth	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 truth	amod
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 moment	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 moment	nummod
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hurt	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 hurt	advmod
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 help	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 another	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	can	the same truth				moment		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	hurt	participle	the same truth not said here			another			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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