Test 1 · ★ · Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice
Your mate says, "Being honest means saying what you think, loud, whenever." What is missing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, honest, you · What happens: say, be, mean, think · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 84 «Kind truths: honesty with a gentle voice» 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: Your mate says, "Being honest means saying what you think, loud, whenever."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 honest | punct |
| 6 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 honest | cop |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 means | xcomp |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 think | obj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 think | nsubj |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 saying | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loud | punct |
| 14 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 think | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whenever | punct |
| 16 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 think | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Your mate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | gerund | honest property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | honest | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quote | gerund | honest not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | whenever property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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 missing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 missing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 missing | cop |
| 3 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 missing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | missing property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Honesty means never saying what you think
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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 saying | advmod |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 means | obj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 think | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 saying | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Honesty | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
Option 2
Nothing; louder truth is always better truth, because then nobody can miss it
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 truth | nsubj |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 truth | amod |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 truth | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 truth | advmod |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 truth | amod |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 miss | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 miss | mark |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 miss | advmod |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 miss | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 miss | aux |
| 14 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 truth | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 miss | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Nothing | better truth | always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | miss | can | nobody | truth | then | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 3
You should only be honest with teachers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 honest | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 honest | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 honest | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 honest | cop |
| 5 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 teachers | case |
| 7 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 honest | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | You | with teachers; honest property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Kind honesty also thinks about when, where and how it is said
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 honesty | amod |
| 2 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 thinks | advmod |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 when | advmod |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 thinks | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 where | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 when | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 said | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | aux:pass |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 where | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think about speech: other | present | Kind honesty | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · passive | honesty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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