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title: "Neighbour's music is SO loud at 2am, I'm gonna smash his speakers."… — Rights, duties and community dilemmas · tree and pragmatics
description: "Neighbour's music is SO loud at 2am, I'm gonna smash his speakers." Which response reasons best? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Rights, duties and community dilemmas» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Rights, duties and community dilemmas

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"Neighbour's music is SO loud at 2am, I'm gonna smash his speakers." Which response reasons best?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** music, I · **What happens:** be, smash · **To what, where:** 2, speakers

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Rights, duties and community dilemmas» 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/49-rights-duties-and-community/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Neighbour's music is SO loud at 2am, I'm gonna smash his speakers."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:49-rights-duties-and-community:t3:1
# text = "Neighbour's music is SO loud at 2am, I'm gonna smash his speakers."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Neighbour	Neighbour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	SO	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	dep	_	_
15	smash	smash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	speakers	speaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	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 | Neighbour's music |  |  | 2  am |  | loud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **smash** *in a quote* | present | I | Neighbour's speakers |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speaker=Theme |

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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:* Which response reasons best?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:49-rights-duties-and-community:t3:2
# text = Which response reasons best?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Talk to him calmly or ask an adult to help agree quiet hours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:49-rights-duties-and-community:t3:o1:1
# text = Talk to him calmly or ask an adult to help agree quiet hours
1	Talk	talk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
12	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | him *= he* |  |  | calmly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **agree** *speech: agree* *not said to happen* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | hour |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Do nothing about it at all and just never get a good night's sleep again

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:49-rights-duties-and-community:t3:o2:1
# text = Do nothing about it at all and just never get a good night's sleep again
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | infinitive |  | a good night's sleep |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sleep** |  | a good night |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Play even louder music back at him all night to teach him a lesson

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:49-rights-duties-and-community:t3:o3:1
# text = Play even louder music back at him all night to teach him a lesson
1	Play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | imperative | you *not said here* | louder music |  |  | night | at him *= he* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a lesson | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lesson=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Smashing them is fair, since he started it and he deserves it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:religion-ethics:49-rights-duties-and-community:t3:o4:1
# text = Smashing them is fair, since he started it and he deserves it
1	Smashing	smash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	deserves	deserve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smash** | gerund |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Smashing |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** | past | he | it |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **deserve** | present | he | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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