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title: Who showed moral courage? — Virtues: courage, responsibility, righ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who showed moral courage? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» 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 wrong.
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# Test 12 · ★★ · Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties

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Who showed moral courage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** moral courage

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Virtues: courage, responsibility, rights and duties» 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/35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties:t12:1
# text = Who showed moral courage?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past |  | moral courage |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent courage=Recipient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Zoe, who stayed quiet while Sam was teased by the others

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties:t12:o1:1
# text = Zoe, who stayed quiet while Sam was teased by the others
1	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	teased	tease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | Zoe |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tease** | past · passive | the others | Sam |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Lily, who told the class it was her pen that leaked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties:t12:o2:1
# text = Lily, who told the class it was her pen that leaked
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	leaked	leak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Lily |  | the class |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | class | Lily's pen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leak** | past | Lily's pen |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Max, who climbed a tree to show off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties:t12:o3:1
# text = Max, who climbed a tree to show off
1	Max	Max	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | Max | a tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |
| 2 | **show off** | to-infinitive | Max *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Finn, who blamed the leak on the new kid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:35-courage-responsibility-rights-and-duties:t12:o4:1
# text = Finn, who blamed the leak on the new kid
1	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blamed	blame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	leak	leak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blame** | past | Finn | the leak |  |  |  | on the new kid | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leak=Theme |

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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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