Test 7 · ★ · Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book

Why might David have punished Nathan instead of owning up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: David · What happens: punish, own up · To what, where: Nathan

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 89 «Owning up: the broken vase and the lost library book» 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	5 punished	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 punished	aux
3	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 punished	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 punished	aux
5	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 punished	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 owning	mark
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	owning	own	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 punished	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 owning	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 punished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	punish	might · perfect	David	Nathan					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nathan=Patient
2	own up	gerund	David not said here						vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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

Because Nathan stole the poor man's lamb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 stole	mark
2	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stole	nsubj
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lamb	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 man	case
8	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	Nathan	the poor man's lamb					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lamb=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Because Nathan told a lie about the lamb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 told	mark
2	Nathan	Nathan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lie	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 lamb	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lamb	det
8	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lie	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Nathan	a lie				about the lamb	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient about lamb=Topic

Option 3

Because David didn't understand the story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 understand	mark
2	David	David	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 understand	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 understand	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 understand	advmod
5	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 understand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not understand	past · do-support	David	the story					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was king, and kings could punish anyone who accused them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 king	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 king	cop
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 punish	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 punish	cc
6	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 punish	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 punish	aux
8	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 king	acl:relcl
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 punish	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 accused	nsubj
11	accused	accuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 anyone	acl:relcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 accused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	He	king	tree rules
2	punish	could	kings	anyone	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient
3	accuse	past		them = they	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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