Test 1 · Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong

Your mate says, "Admitting you're wrong makes you look weak." What is the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, you, Admitting, best reply · What happens: say, admit, be, make, look · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 97 «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» 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, "Admitting you're wrong makes you look weak."

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	_	6 Admitting	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Admitting	punct
6	Admitting	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 makes	csubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 wrong	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wrong	cop
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Admitting	ccomp
10	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 makes	obj
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 makes	xcomp
13	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 look	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 makes	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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	admit speech: other in a quote	gerund				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	you		wrong property	tree rules
4	make in a quote	present	Admitting	you		tree rules
5	look in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		weak property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 the best reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reply	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reply	amod
5	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1

He's right, so never admit anything

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 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 admit	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 admit	advmod
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 admit	advmod
7	admit	admit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 admit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	not admit speech: other	infinitive		anything					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It takes one second and makes you wiser; people respect it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 second	nummod
4	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 makes	cc
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 makes	obj
8	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 makes	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 respect	punct
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 respect	nsubj
11	respect	respect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 takes	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 respect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It		second		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		you		wise property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
3	respect	present	people	it			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

It's fine to admit it if nobody's watching, but never in public

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fine	expl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 admit	mark
5	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fine	csubj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 admit	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 watching	mark
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 watching	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 watching	aux
10	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 admit	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 public	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 public	cc
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 public	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 public	case
15	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fine	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			fine property	tree rules
2	admit speech: other	to-infinitive		it		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	watch a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	nobody			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	not be					tree rules

Option 4

Only teachers should admit being wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 teachers	advmod
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 admit	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 admit	aux
4	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 admit	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	should	teachers						vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund	teachers not said here					wrong property	tree rules

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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