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description: What would happen if everyone thought any lie was fine whenever it helped them? Test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wron
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# Test 8 · ★★★ · Olympiad practice: the hardest cases

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What would happen if everyone thought any lie was fine whenever it helped them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** everyone, lie · **What happens:** happen, think, be, help · **To what, where:** them · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases:t8:1
# text = What would happen if everyone thought any lie was fine whenever it helped them?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
11	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | any lie |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | past | lie | them *= they* |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Life would be easier and safer for everybody

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases:t8:o1:1
# text = Life would be easier and safer for everybody
1	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Life |  |  |  |  | for everybody; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Everyone would be happier and kinder to each other

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases:t8:o2:1
# text = Everyone would be happier and kinder to each other
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	kinder	kind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	4	obl	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Everyone |  |  |  |  | to each; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only olympiads would be affected, nothing else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases:t8:o3:1
# text = Only olympiads would be affected, nothing else
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	olympiads	olympiad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	affected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
8	else	else	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | would · passive |  | olympiads |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer nothing=Result |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Nobody could trust anyone's words any more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases:t8:o4:1
# text = Nobody could trust anyone's words any more
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	any	any	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | could | Nobody | anyone's words |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **word** |  | anyone |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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**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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