Test 12 · ★ · People and society — communities, work, money and rules

Max reckons being fair means letting your friends win. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Max, fair, friends · What happens: reckon, be, mean, let, win

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 58 «People and society — communities, work, money and rules» 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	Max	Max	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fair	cop
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	ccomp
6	letting	let	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 means	xcomp
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friends	nmod:poss
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 win	nsubj
9	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 letting	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 win	punct
11	right	right	ADV	_	9 win	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Max		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	is	gerund		fair property	tree rules
3	mean	present	fair		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let not said to happen	gerund	fair not said here		tree rules
5	win	present	your friends	right property	vn succeed-74-2 «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

No, it means doing whatever you like, whatever the rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	xcomp
6	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 like	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 like	nsubj
8	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doing	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 whatever	punct
10	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 doing	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rules	det
12	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 whatever	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	it		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	gerund		whatever	tree rules
3	like	present	you	whatever	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme

Option 2

Yes, if they are your best friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 friends	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 friends	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 friends	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 friends	cop
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friends	nmod:poss
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 friends	amod
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Yes, friends come first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	friends					first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it means treating everyone by the same rules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	treating	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	xcomp
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 treating	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 rules	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rules	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rules	amod
10	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 treating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	treat not said to happen	gerund			everyone			by the same rules	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient

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