Test 7 · ★ · Why cheating hurts the cheat

What would happen if everyone could pay someone else to write their schoolwork?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: happen, pay, write · To what, where: someone, schoolwork

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 94 «Why cheating hurts the cheat» 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	_	7 pay	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 pay	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pay	aux
7	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 pay	obj
9	else	else	ADV	_	8 someone	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 write	mark
11	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 someone	acl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 schoolwork	nmod:poss
13	schoolwork	schoolwork	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 write	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pay a condition, not said to happen	could	everyone	someone	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Asset
3	write	to-infinitive	everyone not said here	their schoolwork	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent schoolwork=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone would become cleverer, because they'd read more essays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 read	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 read	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 read	nsubj
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 read	aux
9	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 become	parataxis
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 essays	amod
11	essays	essay	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Everyone					clever property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	read	would	they	more essays					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent essay=Topic

Option 2

Nothing would change at all

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	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Marks would mean nothing, and nobody would learn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 mean	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 learn	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 learn	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 learn	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 learn	aux
9	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mean	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	Marks	nothing					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	learn	would	nobody						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Teachers would have more free time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 time	amod
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Teachers				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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