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description: Your friend reads you her poem and asks, "Be honest, is it good?" It rhymes badly. Which reply best mixes honesty and kindness? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 41 «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Dilemmas about truth and friendship

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Your friend reads you her poem and asks, "Be honest, is it good?" It rhymes badly. Which reply best mixes honesty and kindness?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** friend, poem · **What happens:** read, ask, be, rhyme, reply, mix · **To what, where:** you, honesty · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 41 «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» 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/41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your friend reads you her poem and asks, "Be honest, is it good?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship:t6:1
# text = Your friend reads you her poem and asks, "Be honest, is it good?"
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	expl	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present | Your friend | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Your friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* It rhymes badly.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship:t6:2
# text = It rhymes badly.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rhymes	rhyme	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rhyme** | present | poem |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* Which reply best mixes honesty and kindness?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship:t6:3
# text = Which reply best mixes honesty and kindness?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reply	reply	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	mixes	mix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mix** | present |  | honesty and kindness |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honesty=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It's terrible, honestly, you should give up writing poems

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship:t6:o1:1
# text = It's terrible, honestly, you should give up writing poems
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | honestly, terrible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give up** | should | you | writing poems |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It's the best poem ever written, don't change a single word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship:t6:o2:1
# text = It's the best poem ever written, don't change a single word
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	change	change	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the best poem |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | the best poem *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **change** | infinitive · do-support |  | a single word |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Whatever, I don't really care about poems, ask someone else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship:t6:o3:1
# text = Whatever, I don't really care about poems, ask someone else
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	else	else	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **care** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  | about poems | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about poem=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | someone |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |

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

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I love the idea; some rhymes feel forced, want to fix them together?

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:41-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship:t6:o4:1
# text = I love the idea; some rhymes feel forced, want to fix them together?
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | I | the idea |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer idea=Stimulus |
| 2 | **feel** | present | some rhymes |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **force** | participle | some rhymes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **want** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **fix** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | rhymes *= rhyme* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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