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title: "Testing medicine on animals is wrong cos the scientists are horribl… — Animals · tree and pragmatics
description: "Testing medicine on animals is wrong cos the scientists are horrible people." What is weak about this argument? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 46 «Animals» 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 wro
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# Test 7 · ★ · Animals

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"Testing medicine on animals is wrong cos the scientists are horrible people." What is weak about this argument?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Testing medicine, scientists · **What happens:** be

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 46 «Animals» 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/46-animals/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Testing medicine on animals is wrong cos the scientists are horrible people."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:46-animals:t7:1
# text = "Testing medicine on animals is wrong cos the scientists are horrible people."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Testing	Testing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Testing medicine on animals |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the scientists |  |  |  |  | cos horrible people | 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:* What is weak about this argument?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:46-animals:t7:2
# text = What is weak about this argument?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about this argument; weak *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It is weak because it agrees with the teacher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:46-animals:t7:o1:1
# text = It is weak because it agrees with the teacher
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	agrees	agree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | it |  |  |  |  | with the teacher | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with teacher=Co-Agent |

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

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It attacks people instead of giving reasons about the question

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:46-animals:t7:o2:1
# text = It attacks people instead of giving reasons about the question
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	attacks	attack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	6	mark	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | present | It | people |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | gerund |  | reasons |  |  |  | about the question | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It is too long and has too many reasons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:46-animals:t7:o3:1
# text = It is too long and has too many reasons
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | many reasons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It mentions medicine, which is completely off the topic of animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:46-animals:t7:o4:1
# text = It mentions medicine, which is completely off the topic of animals
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mentions	mention	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	topic	topic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | present | It | medicine and the topic |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent medicine=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | medicine and the topic |  |  |  |  | off the topic; of animals; completely *property* | tree rules |

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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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