Exam question 1 · Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong

Which of the following most accurately characterises the teaching recorded in Matthew 7:3-5?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, record · To what, where: teaching

This is exam question 1 of lesson 97 «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 accurately	advmod
6	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	7 characterises	advmod
7	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 teaching	det
9	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 characterises	obj
10	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 teaching	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Matthew	case
12	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 recorded	obl:agent
13	7:3-5	7:3-5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 Matthew	flat
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the teaching	accurately property	tree rules
3	record	participle	the teaching not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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

Faults ought never to be mentioned under any circumstances

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mentioned	nsubj:pass
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mentioned	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 mentioned	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	6 mentioned	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 mentioned	aux:pass
6	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 circumstances	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 circumstances	det
9	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mentioned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mention speech: other	ought · passive		Faults		any circumstances			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

One's own faults are of no consequence compared with those of others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 consequence	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 One	case
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 faults	amod
4	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 consequence	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 consequence	cop
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 consequence	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 consequence	det
8	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 consequence	acl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 those	case
11	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 compared	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 others	case
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 those	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	own faults					of One's consequence	tree rules
2	compare	participle		One's consequence not said here				with One's consequence	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with that=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

One ought to attend to one's own faults before censuring the lesser faults of others

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 attend	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 attend	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 attend	mark
4	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 faults	case
6	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 faults	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 one	case
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 faults	amod
9	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 attend	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 censuring	mark
11	censuring	censure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 attend	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 faults	det
13	lesser	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 faults	amod
14	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 censuring	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 others	case
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 faults	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	attend	ought	One		to one's own faults	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to fault=Theme
2	censure	gerund	One not said here	the lesser faults of others		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Theme
3	fault		one			nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent
4	fault			others		nom fault «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

One ought to censure the faults of others before attending to one's own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 censure	nsubj
2	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 censure	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 censure	mark
4	censure	censure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 faults	det
6	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 censure	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 others	case
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 faults	nmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 attending	mark
10	attending	attend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 censure	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 attending	obl
13	's	's	PART	_	12 one	case
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 attending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	censure	ought	One	the faults of others			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Theme
2	attend	gerund	One not said here		one	own property	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to one=Theme
3	fault			others			nom fault «act transitive»: of=patient

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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