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Test 9 · ★ · Owning up when it is hard

Jamal thinks, "If I tell now, I'll be in loads of trouble." Why should he still tell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jamal · What happens: think, tell, be · To what, where: loads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 91 «Owning up when it is hard» 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: Jamal thinks, "If I tell now, I'll be in loads of trouble."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jamal	Jamal	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct
5	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 tell	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	advcl
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 tell	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 loads	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 loads	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 loads	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 loads	case
14	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tell	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 trouble	case
16	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 loads	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 thinks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	Jamal						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Jamal				now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	future	Jamal			loads		of trouble	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.

Sentence 2: Why should he still tell?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 tell	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should	Jamal				still		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He shouldn't; it's too late now

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	2 should	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 should	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 late	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 late	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 late	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 late	advmod
8	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 should	advmod
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 late	advmod

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

Option 2

Because his brother will find out anyway and tell their parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 find	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 find	compound:prt
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 find	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 find	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 parents	nmod:poss
11	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find out	future	his brother					anyway property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	his brother not said here		their parents				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His brother deserves justice and his parents deserve the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deserves	nsubj
3	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 deserves	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 deserve	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 parents	nmod:poss
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 deserve	nsubj
8	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 deserves	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 truth	det
10	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deserve	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	present	His brother	justice					tree rules
2	deserve	present	brother's parents	the truth					tree rules

Option 4

Because he'll get a reward for telling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 get	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reward	det
6	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 telling	mark
8	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 get	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	future	he	a reward					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reward=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	he not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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