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Test 10 · ★★ · Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling

The judge asks, "Is it ever right to lie?" and a team just says, "Never, because." Why will they score low?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: judge, team, they · What happens: ask, be, not say, score · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 99 «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» 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: The judge asks, "Is it ever right to lie?" and a team just says, "Never, because."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
6	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lie	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 right	nsubj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 right	advmod
9	right	right	ADV	_	11 lie	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lie	mark
11	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asks	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 says	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 team	det
16	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 says	nsubj
17	just	just	ADV	_	18 says	advmod
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asks	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Never	punct
21	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 says	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 because	punct
23	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	18 says	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the judge						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is not said to happen, in a quote	present						lie, right property	tree rules
3	not say speech: assert	present	a team						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.

Sentence 2: Why will they score low?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 score	advmod
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 score	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 score	nsubj
4	score	score	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 score	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 score	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	score	future	they					low property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Because judges only like the word "sometimes" in answers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 word	mark
2	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 word	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 word	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 sometimes	punct
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 word	advmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 sometimes	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 answers	case
11	answers	answer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 word	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They gave no reasons and ignored the other side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 reasons	det
4	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ignored	cc
6	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 side	amod
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	They	no reasons					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	ignore	past	They not said here	the other side					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme

Option 3

Because "never" is always the wrong answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 never	mark
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 never	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 answer	advcl
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 never	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 answer	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 answer	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 answer	det
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answer	amod
9	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the wrong answer				always property	tree rules

Option 4

Because the answer was too short to hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 short	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 answer	det
3	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 short	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 short	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 short	advmod
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 short	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the answer					short property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	the answer not said here						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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