Test 9 · Check the claim, not the person

What would happen if everyone judged ideas only by who said them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: happen, judge, say · To what, where: ideas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 188 «Check the claim, not the person» of the world 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	_	6 judged	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 judged	nsubj
6	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 judged	obj
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 said	advmod
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 said	mark
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 judged	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	obj
13	?	?	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	judge a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone	ideas	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent idea=Value
3	say speech: assert	past		ideas = idea	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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

Arguments would get much fairer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 fairer	advmod
5	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Arguments					fair property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Good ideas from unpopular people would be thrown away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ideas	amod
2	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thrown	nsubj:pass
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 people	case
4	unpopular	unpopular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ideas	nmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 thrown	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 thrown	aux:pass
8	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 thrown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	would · passive		Good ideas from unpopular people				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Only true ideas would survive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 ideas	advmod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ideas	amod
3	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 survive	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 survive	aux
5	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	would	true ideas						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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